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Ogden Family History 



In the line of 

Lieutenant Benjamin Ogden^ of 
New York, (born June 22, 
1735 — died August 16, 1780) 
of the Prince of Wales' Amer- 
ican Regiment, and his wife 
Rachel Westervelt 



With Some Account of His Ancestry and Descendants 

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Page 

An Old Letter 6 

Journey to Charlton 7 

Mrs. Brown's Stories 8 

Old Houses Built by John Ogden 9 

Records at Ballston and Saratoga 10 

Conde Family 11 

Ogden Arms 12 

Old Burying Ground 13 

Jonathan Ogden's Will 14 

Susannah Ogden Sutton 15 

Jonathan Ogden and Susannah Dunscomb 16 

Early Ogdens 17 

Susannah's Will 18 

First and Second Generations 19 

Michael and Jane (Bloomer) Ogden 20 

William Ogden of North Castle 21 

Capt. Benjamin Ogden 23 

William's Grandchildren 25 

Sackville Ogdens 26 

Jonathan and Willmont Ogden 29 



ii CONTENTS. 

Page 

A Famous Banquet 31 

Ogden "Earmarks" 32 

Jonathan Ogden's Will 34 

Third Generation 38 

Vander Heydcns 39 

Capt. Jonathan Ogden 40 

Albert Ogden of North Castle 42 

Lieut. Benjamin Ogden and Rachel Westervelt 43 

At Battle of Camden 46 

During the Revolutionary War 47 

Flight of the Refugees 49 

Crown Grants 50 

Timothy Wetmore 51 

In the British Provinces 53 

Letter from Mrs. C. O. Whelpley 54 

Rachel Ogden Wetmore 55 

Susannah Ogden Dusenberry 56 

Wilmot Ogden Miller 57 

Parthenia Ogden Conde 58 

Fourth Generation 60 

George and Rachel Wetmore 61 

The Purchase in Troy, New Jersey 63 

Rachel Moves to Morristown 64 

Her Daughter Rachel Marries Mr. Israel Canlield 65 

The School 66-70 

Mrs. Wetmore in Baltimore 71 

Marriage of Her Daughter, Harriet Augusta, to Mr. James Colles 72 

Letter from Her Son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Lovell 72 



CONTENTS. iii 

Page 
Rachel Wetmore's Note Book "jt, 

Descendants of George and Rachel Wetmore 76-79 

Benjamin Ogden of Antigonish (Fourth Generation) 80 

Descendants of Benjamin and Corneha Hierlihy Ogden 83-87 

In Shelburne, N. S 85 

Albert Ogden (Fourth Generation) 88 

Ogden Vault 93 

The Island 95 

Marriage of His Daughter Elizabeth 96 

Letter from His Niece, Rachel Canfield 97 

Last Years in Morristown 99 

Descendants of Albert Ogden and Margaretta Wood Ogden 102 

Andrew Ogden (Fourth Generation) 103 

The Letter 104 

Ogden Bros 108 

Old Home in Morristown 109 

In New York no 

Descendants of Andrew Ogden and Mary Dixon Ogden 112-116 

Jonathan Ogden and Susannah Dunscomb 16 



INTRODUCTION 



Much of the material in this history was collected when 
looking up my mother's family here and in Canada for Mr. Wil- 
liam Ogden Wheeler's' "Ogden Genealogy." All thanks are due 
to him and to his efficient assistant, Mr. Lawrence Van Alstyne, 
for access to their accumulated store of information. But the fam- 
ily of Benjamin Ogden would not appear in Mr. Wheeler's book, 
which is a genealogy- in the line of John Ogden, of Elizabethtown, 
"good old John" as he was called, and does not include the de- 
scendants of his brother, Richard, nor other branches of Ogden 
family. To give a complete chart of all this Ogden branch would 
be a greater undertaking than can at present be contemplated, and 
the appended charts will continue to the present generation only 
in the line of Benjamin Ogden, of New York. 

It will be deemed a great favor if any error found herein 
will be reported to me, or, if any material can be sent which will 
give added interest or accuracy. There was no thought of pub- 
lishing until it was suggested by Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 
whose interest in the matter is most gratefully acknowledged. 

Many thanks are also due to the friends who have rendered 



the kindest assistance, which can only be appreciated by those 
who know from experience how much time, money and labor must 
be expended in writing up even a short family history. 

As the cost of publication must be met by subscriptions, it is 
earnestly hoped that many necessary names will be added to the 
subscription list. 

Very truly yours, 

Anna S. Vermilye. 



PROLOGUE. 



Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, thus designated on the muster rolls 
of the British Army and on the tombstone erected by his son, 
Albert Ogden, at St. George, N. B., to his memory, and that of 
his wife, Rachel, was universally called "Captain" by his descend- 
ants in the British provinces and in New Jersey. They believed 
that it was only his death, which occurred at the battle of Camden, 
.South Carolina, in 1780, that prevented him from, receiving his 
promotion. 

When this history was begun, our scanty records pointed to 
him as the head of the line, although there was a tradition of a 
previous ancestor named Jonathan, not definitely placed. 

The recollections of Mrs. Sophia Wetmore Lovell, daughter 
of George and Rachel (Ogden) Wetmore, as committed to writing 
by Mrs. Admiral Radford, Mrs. Lovell's daughter, make refer- 
ence to a Jonathan. 

Because Benjamin was a Loyalist, and the misfortunes of war 
and his early death scattered his family, who felt obliged to emi- 



6 PROLOGUE. 

grate to the British provinces, there seemed for a time no way of 
tracing his ancestry. The family records had been lost in the 
migrations and viscissitudes of the family after the Revolution. 
The old "Family Bible" was lost, thought to have been burned in 
the great fire at St. John, N. B., many years ago. 

But an old letter, fortunately preserved, dated June, 1796, 
found among Albert Ogden's papers, which was written by Lieut. 
Benjamin's son, Andrew Ogden, then of New York, to his broth- 
er, Benjamin, then living at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, proved the 
key to unlock further knowledge. This letter, now in our posses- 
sion, is, in part, as follows : 

"About a fortnight since I returned from Albany, where I went upon 
business for Galbreath and Elms, after completion of which I took stage 
to Schenectady and from thence rode to Charlton, about nine miles farther 
over the Mohawk River, where I had (for the first time) the pleasure of 
seeing several of our uncles and aunts, and cousins without number. 

"Uncle Jonathan Ogden had lately moved in Charlton. The others, 
uncles Jesse Condey and Gilbert Miller, both of whom you have heard 
our mother speak of, have been at that place near twenty years, and have 
acquired very handsome estates. 

"To particularly describe them all, their different dispositions, occu- 
pations, circumstances, etc., etc., would, on account of their numbers, be too 
great an undertaking ; therefore it must suffice for the present to say they 
are very agreeable in their families, their employment, chiefly farming, and 
generally in very easy circumstances." 

This clear record made by Andrew Ogden more than a hun- 



JOURNEY TO CHARLTON. 7 

dred years ago, shows that his father, Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, had 
a brother named Jonathan, and two sisters, one the wife of Jesse 
Condey, and one the wife of Gilbert Miller, living at Charlton, 
N. Y. 

(The remainder of the letter will be given later, where it will be per- 
tinent to the history of Benjamin and Albert, brothers of Andrew Ogden.) 

A journey of research was made to Charlton and vicinity in 
the autumn of 1896, which resulted in findmg descendants of the 
uncles, Jesse Condey and Gilbert Miller, mentioned in the letter, 
and many valuable records, as well as the silent testimony of the 
old Conde burying ground. 

Charlton is near Ballston, Saratoga County, N. Y., where 
deeds are recorded, and there we find that in 1796 John Campbell, 
of Charlton, sells to Jonathan Ogden, of the same place, 100 acres 
which may be the purchase referred to in the letter. 

In Ballston were found residing two grandchildren of Jesse 
Conde and Parthenia Ogden, his wife. They were Eveline E. 
Conde, widow of John Brown, and her younger brother, Henry 
Clay Conde, a lawyer and Civil War veteran, who at once became 
interested in the family guest and gave all the information in their 
power. 

Mr. H. C. Conde was blind in consequence of exposure under- 
gone in the War of the Rebellion. Mrs. Brown remembered hear- 



8 PROLOGUE. 

ing a story about Parthenia and her three brothers corning from 
England, and that the brothers were commissioned officers, and 
that Parthenia was very brave during the stormy voyage over. 
This recalls a remark made by Albert, son of Lieut. Benjamin 
Ogden, many years ago, that his forefathers "came to this coun- 
try to fight the rebels." We cannot reconcile these stories with 
the strong proof we have that the family was in this country long 
before the War of the Revolution. Mrs. Brown seemed to think 
that others of the family may have been here before Parthenia 
and her brothers came. It may have been only a visit to England, 
from which they returned. At all events it seems only fair to give 
in our family history all the information we have gathered, even 
though we cannot perfectly piece it together, 

Mrs. Brown told about John Ogden, who she thought was 
a brother of Jonathan and that they sold their commissions after 
the war and took up architecture and building. This reminds 
us of Mrs. Lovell's tradition in her narrative, that her ancestor, 
Jonathan (father of Mrs. Brown's Jonathan) "was a master build- 
er in ante-revolutionary days." Both are lacking in corroborative 
facts, but indicate a sort of common substratum of truth. That 
Capt. Jonathan had a brother, John, does not appear from any 
record, and rests entirely on this tradition. He had, however, a 
son, John, which is shown in Pearson's "First Settlers of Schenec- 
tady." Quite possibly they have exchanged places in this tradition. 



OLD HOUSES BUILT BY JOHN OGDEN. g 

Mrs. Brown drove us about nine miles to Charlton to see two 
old houses that John Ogden built more than a hundred years ago. 
A visit to one of them, the old Conde house, where a hospitable 
meal was served, gave opportunity to note the oaken floor, hard 
as iron, in the great living room ; the wide old hall, which had once 
been decorated with a frieze of oak leaves and acorns in plaster, 
because of the family tradition that King Charles had been shel- 
tered in an oak tree on John Ogden's plantation. 

All the timber for building was supplied from trees cut down 
on the place ; the siding planed by hand, and the riven shingles of 
white oak, were not replaced for sixty years. The bricks were 
made and burnt there, and all the nails, hinges and other iron 
work were made by the blacksmith on the place. The other old 
house, built by John Ogden for Dr. Elisha Miller, still in good 
preservation, was said to have been the finest house in the county 
at that time. 

Mrs. Brown told of a highly valued picture, unfortunately 
destroyed, which had been given to her father, Jesse Conde, before 
he was married, by his cousin. Miss HofTman, of New York City. 
It represented the Virgin Mary leading a little child across a 
brook. Its handsome gilt frame was designed in oak leaves, the 
family emblem. This is not the only reference we have of Hofifman 
connection, but we know of no record to explain it at present. Mrs. 
Brown said that Susan Ogden (who may have been sister of John) 
married a Hoffman. 



lo PROLOGUE. 

In the record office at Ballston we find the names of David 
Ogden and Nicholas Hoffman as early as 1791, June 9; but neith- 
er, so far as we know, are connected with "Uncle Jonathan" of the 
letter. 

In Pearson's "First Settlers of Schenectady" we find this 
record : 

"Capt. Jonathan Ogden, of New York, Westchester County Regiment, 
married Rachel, daughter of Joachim Vander Heyden, of Albany, December 
10, 1758." 

It is established beyond controversy that this Jonathan, who 
was a captain in the French War, is the "Uncle Jonathan" men- 
tioned in the letter, and that he is the brother of Lieut. Benjamin 
Ogden, our ancestor. The will of Gilbert Miller, found in Sara- 
toga, and dated 1797, one year later than Andrew Ogden's letter, 
makes his wife, Wilmot, one of his executors. This gives the name 
of the sister of Uncle Jonathan and Parthenia, children of Jonathan 
Ogden, of New York, who kept an Inn at the sign of the Black 
Horse, in upper Queen street, (now Pearl), a social and business 
center at that period. 

The "First Settlers of Schenectady" has also this record : 

"Jesse Conde (Condesche) son of Adam, high constable of Albany, 
1724, and Catherine De Graaf, settled in Charlton ; married Parthenia, 
daughter of Jonathan Ogden. July 8, 1762." 

(In "New York Marriages" the date of license is June 23, 1762). 



CONDE FAMILY. ii 

"He was the son of Adam Conde and Catherine De Graff. 
Adam Conde, high sheriff of Albany, when it was called Bever- 

wyck, son of Conde, a French Bourbon (descended from 

Prince de Conde) who, with others, was driven into Holland from 
France by persecution for their religion, and from thence came to 
America." 

"Adam's parents both died of ship fever and he was brought 
up by the Lansing family who were made his guardians. They 
came over in the same ship with the Condes, and were the found- 
ers of Lansingburgh. Adam married Catherine De Grafif and 
moved to Schenectady. He was killed by the Indians at the battle 
of Boeckendal (Beach Valley), 1748. Ah Indian, to whom Airs. 
Conde had done a kindness, warned her that they were coming to 
kill the family, and she escaped with her babe in her arms, Adam 
2d, and little Jesse, six years old. The snow was two feet deep 
and she walked with the children sixteen miles, to Albany. She 
seems to have escaped with no worse injury than frozen feet." 

Some months after the visit to Charlton it was our privilege 
to meet in Poughkeepsie Miss Smith, a descendant of the Pad- 
docks, of Westchester County, an old lady who had lived in Charl- 
ton in her youth, whose father's friend had been Jesse Conde, son 
of Jesse Conde and Parthenia Ogden. She described him as a 
typical Dutchman, and "if he had not loved his ease and spent so 
much time with his books in reading and study, he could have 



12 PROLOGUE. 

made a name for himself, for he was a man of fine mind and abil- 
ity." She said the Condes were very proud of their Huguenot 
stock and of their Ogden blood, and highly prized the coat of 
arms which came to them through Parthenia Ogden, "granted to 
John Ogden by King Charles II, for faithful services rendered his 
unfortunate father. King Charles I." It is the same as that found 
among Albert Ogden's papers, and that the family of Benjamin 
Ogden have in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, except that in one copy 
John Ogden is called "Yeoman," and in another is entitled, "Sir 
John." 

Hugh Clark, English author of "Introduction to Heraldry," says : 
"The Yeomen, of England, were famous in our forefathers' days for 
archery and manhood. Our infantry, which so often conquered the French 
and repulsed the Scots, was composed of them, as are our militia at 
present." 

Among his other activities, Jesse Conde kept a store in Charl- 
ton. From his old account book, dating back to 1762, in I\Irs. 
Brown's possession, we found the following transactions : 

A receipt to John Ogden for £8 15s. gold. May 20, 1792. 
Sales to Jonathan Ogden of wheat and corn on May 2, 1799, and Jan- 
uary 3, 1799. 

In the Freehold Presbyterian Church, Dr. Sweetman's, near 
Charlton, is recorded: "Jesse Conde and his wife, Tenie, joined 
church, 1800." 



OLD BURYING GROUND. 13 

In the Conde burying ground on the old place owned by Mrs. 
Brown, were found many family inscriptions. Among them those 
of "Parthenia Ogden, wife of Jesse Conde. She died December 
II, 1817, aged 73 years, i month, 17 days." Also, "Jesse Conde 
died July 28, 1818, aged 75 years, 4 months, 19 days." 

Mrs. Brown said that "after his wife, Tenie (Parthenia) died, 
Jesse grieved continually, and died the following year. They had 
seven sons and three daughters. He left to each of the boys 100 
acres of land. The girls had their portion in money." 

These substantial gifts are in accordance with the handsome 
estates and easy circumstances mentioned in Andrew's letter. 

Thus far our researches have provided Lieut. Benjamin with 
a brother, Jonathan, (the Uncle Jonathan, of Andrew's letter.) A 
brother, John, the builder, whose title rests entirely upon Mrs. 
Brown's tradition, and whom we prefer to call his nephew, John. 
A sister, Parthenia, wife of Jesse Conde; a sister, Wilmot, wife 
of Gilbert Miller, and a father, Jonathan. 

Another brother, named Albert, and another sister, named 
Freelove, are provided by the will of Jonathan Ogden, father of 
Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, which was found in the Surrogate's 
Office, in New York. It is dated October 11, 1750, and proved 
February 16, 1753, and names : 

"First — My well beloved son, Jonathan Ogden, my eldest son and heir 
at law. Second — My well beloved son, Albert, to whom the sawmill, at 



14 PROLOGUE. 

Middle Patent, is devised. Next — To my dear and loving wife, Willmont 
Ogden, one-third of my real and personal estate. Next — The remaining 
two-thirds, for support and education of my children until 21 years of 
age or day of marriage, to be divided eventually among all my loving chil- 
dren, except my eldest daughter, Freelove, who has already received her 
portion." 

The reference to "son Jonathan," in this will (who is the 
Uncle Jonathan of Andrew Ogden's letter) was vital to our proof. 
We were baffled for a time by an error in the printed record of 
New York Wills, published by the New York Hist. Society. The 
will, as there published, does not contain the name of Jonathan, 
which by an error of transcribing, has been changed to Joshua. 
But Jonathan is in the original record. 

There is another sister of Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, who is in- 
troduced by Baird's "History of Westchester County," as follows : 

"Henry Dusenberry, born 1735, July 28, who married Susannah Og- 
den, born 1738, May 27. (Her mother was VVilmot Ogden.)" 

The surname of Jonathan Ogden's wife is not given. He 
calls her Willmont in his will. Those of her children and grand- 
children, who bear the name, spell it "Wilmot." 

"There is a legend that has wide circulation, that, when King 
Charles I fled toward Scotland, pursued by Cromwell's soldiers, 
he found temporary refuge at the home of an Ogden. 

"Being hard pressed, Charles I and Lord Wilmot were 



THE WILL OF SUSANNAH. 15 

secreted in an oak tree and thus escaped. It is added that the 
King asked Ogden's wife to name her soon expected next child, 
if a boy, Wilmot, and if a girl, Wilmuth, in honor of his friend, 
and these names have been conspicuous in Ogden family ever 

since. When Charles II came to the throne, he heard the story 

and granted the 'Ogden family coat of arms.' " (From Rev. 

Charles Burr Ogden's book, "The Quaker Ogdens.") 

"Hume's Hist, says, "Lord Wilmot fought for King Charles I, at the 
battle of Roundway Down, July 13, 1643. He was victorious." 

At this point in our story, which was projected and written as 
a history of Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, P. W. A. R., the accidental 
discovery of the will of Susannah, mother of Jonathan Ogden, 
the father of Lieut. Benjamin, somewhat disturbed our plan. 

Susannah's first husband was Ogden, and when she died, 

she was the widow of Thomas Sutton. 

This will takes us back another generation and is full of 
Ogden news, and confirms our work in various ways. The 
christian name of Susannah's first husband (not mentioned in her 
will) we cannot find, and his ancestry we are not sure of. The 
solution of this difficulty seems to have been met by some of the 
descendants of Jonathan and Wilmot Ogden's daughter, Susan- 
nah, who married Henry Dusenberry. They affirm that the maid- 
en name of her grandmother (the Susannah of the will) was 



l6 PROLOGUE. 

Dnnscomb, and that her first husband was Jonathan Ogden. They 
have one date, 1732, of the death of a Jonathan Ogden, which 
would be about the right time for the demise of Susannah's first 
husband, but all other papers and records have been lost. 

Mrs. George P. Shears, of New York, is one of the descend- 
ants of Jonathan Ogden and Susannah Dunscomb, to whom we 
are indebted for much of interest. She has some valuable old 
relics which belonged to them — one of them, a curious old plate, 
said to be more than 200 years old, is inscribed on the back : 
"Susannah Dunscomb's Plate" ; a silver thimble of antique design, 
is marked, "S. O." The Ogden property at Rye (Mrs. Shears' old 
home) she said had been in the family for more than a hundred 
years before the last of it was sold, about twenty-five years ago. 

A careful search of Rye records discloses no further light on 
the subject. As to the identity of this Jonathan it is impossible 
to place him with certainty. There is somiC reason to think he 
may be the Jonathan Ogden found in the records of Fairfield, 
Conn. He is the only Jonathan Ogden of that time and vicinity, 
who is not otherwise accounted for. He is a son of Richard, who 
died before January 25, 1698, and his wife, Sarah Staples. 

"In the distribution of his father's estate before June 22, 1706, 
he gets a share of 19 acres which he sells on August 7, 1719. His 
sister, Mary, married Robert Travis, of Rye. Jonathan may have 
sold out and moved to Rye, for there seems to be no further trace 



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EARLY OGDENS. 17 

of him in Fairfield. His father, Richard, about 1680, is called 
Richard Ogden 2d, which indicates that he was then of age. He 
was son of Richard and Mary Ogden, of Fairfield. Richard died 
before April 28, 1687, and Mary died before October 25, 1690, 
This is the first Ogden mentioned in Fairfield, Conn., records, and 
is supposed to be son of the Richard found in Stamford records 
1-19, January 7, 1642, and who, according to Mrs. Schenck, was 
partner with his brother John in building a church in New York, 
in 1641. After completing the church, these two brothers, Rich- 
ard and John, removed to Long Island, after which no further 
record is found of Richard. John went from Long Island to Eliza- 
bethtown, N. J., in 1665, and died there in 1682." — From Mr. 
Van Alstyne's Notes. 

These are the earliest Ogdens in this country, of whom we 
have had any record, and so far we know of no direct connection 
with the Ogden family in England or Wales. It would seem 
appropriate here to say something about the origin of the name 
and coat of arms, and the antiquity of the family. But no oppor- 
tunity has been available for a journey of research in England, 
and the subject has received much consideration in the Rev. 
Charles Burr Ogden's book. 

It is interesting to note that the same coat of arms is claimed 
by different branches of Ogden family, which indicates that all 
are from the same stem in England. There is an older "arms" 



i8 PROLOGUE. 

than that given in the photograph in this book, but this is the 
one famiUar since childhood, which was kept in Albert Ogden's 
old family Bible. 

The will of Susannah, whose first husband is believed to be 
Jonathan Ogden, is here given in full. 

"Susannah Sutton, widow of Thomas Sutton, late of Greenwich, Fair- 
field Co., Conn. Will dated Aug. 8, 1765. Proved Nov. 8, 1769. Bk. 27, 
p. 191, N. Y." 

Will gives to Micliael Ogden "money due on bond which Thomas Sut- 
ton, of Greenwich gave to me in agreement of dower belonging to est., of 
my above said dead husband ; my daughter, Rachel Purdy and her 3 sons, 
Gilbert Purdy, Stephen Purdy, Jesse Purdy, sons of Thomas Purdy. 

"My son Wm. Ogden (land). 

"My granddaughters, Ann Birdsall, Martha Ogden, Susannah Ogden, 
Susannah Newman, Hannah Finch, Mary Ogden, dau. of my son, John 
Ogden ; my daughter, Susannah Wilson, to each i large and small silver 
spoon and my household goods. 

"My fireslice tongs and tramel to my grandson, Stephen Purdy. 

"To my grandson, Joseph Ogden, son of my son. John Ogden, 5 
shillings. 

"To my daughters, Susannah Wilson and Rachel Purdy, linen and 
cloathes. 

"To my grandson, Jonathan Ogden, son of ray son, Jonathan Ogden, 
my great Bible. 



3fir0t (Beneratton, 

Jonathan Ogden, and Susannah, his wife. 



Scco^^ (Bcneration. 

Their children given in order of her will, there being no way 
of fixing their relative ages : 

I Michel. 2 Rachel. 3 William. 4 John. 5 Susan- 
nah. 6 Jonathan, and probably Rebecca — she is not named in 
Susannah's will, but it seems to us probable that there was such 
a daughter, as a mere deduction from these facts : A grand- 
daughter of Susannah's is named Hannah Finch in her will — who 
is, we think, the same that Samuel Banks, of North Castle, in his 
will, dated June 15, 1742, and witnessed by Jonathan Ogden, calls 
"My daughter, Hannah Finch." Samuel's wife's name was Re- 
becca, as appears by his will. 

I. Michel Ogden ; m. Jane Bloomer. 

"The Bloomer family, of Rye, were highly respected and 



20 FAMILY HISTORY. 

were people of large means before the Revolutionary War, but 
the family is now extinct. The last of the male line went to 
England for ordination many years ago, where he died unmar- 
ried, aged about 25 years." — From Miss E. Purdy, of Rye, 1896. 
In Bolton's "Hist, of the Church in Westchester Co.," Rob- 
ert Bloomer is mentioned as vestryman of Christ Church at Rj'e, 
in 1719, and "in 1727 Joseph Bloomer was clerk of ye Church." 
The Rev. James Wetmore had charge of the parish at that time. 
Gilbert Bloomer was warden of the church in 1765. Robert 
Bloomer lived in Rye as early as 1683. — See Bolton's Hist. 
Westchester Co. "The Rev. Joshua Bloomer, graduate King's 
College, New York, 1758, accepted captaincy in provincial forces, 
I759j in Westchester County for operations against Canada. 
His services gained for him a majority in 1760. After the war he 
became a merchant in New York, but relinquished that pursuit 
for divinity and went to England for ordination, in 1765, and 
returned to Jamaica, L. I., where he had a parish." — From Rik- 
er's Annals of Newtown, L. I. 

The children of Michel Ogden and Jane Bloomer were : 

1. James Ogden. 

2. Robert Ogden; m. Margaret Price. 

3. Jonathan Ogden; b. 1747; d. 1845; m- ist, ; 



2d, Whitlock; 3rd, Mary Clark; b. 1759; d. 

May, 1846. This Jonathan Ogden and his wife, Mary, 
are mentioned by Sabine as "devoted loyalists." He 
had a crown grant at Greenw'ich, Kings Co., N. B., 
where they both died. 

4. Bloomer Ogden; m. . 

5. Jane Ogden; m. Tripp. 

There are many descendants, and among them, Rob- 



SECOND GENERATION. 21 

ert Ogden, of Olamon, Maine, and Stephen Ogden, of Lebo, 
Kansas, to whom we are indebted for information about 
this family. 

II. Rachel Ogden m. Thomas Purdy. 

Children : 

1. Gilbert Purdy, who m. his cousin, Elizabeth, dau. of 

William Ogden. 

2. Stephen Purdy. 

3. Jesse Purdy. 

III. William Ogden, b. 1706; d. 1783 ; aged "JT. His wife 
was Martha . 

He calls himself "of North Castle, Farmer," in his will, 
which is dated Feb. i6th, 1769, and proved April 17, 1784. — See 
"Early Wills of Westchester, p. 273 (Pelletreau). In it he men- 
tions wife, Martha, for whom he makes provision. He leaves to 
his "oldest son, William, five pounds as a bar to all claims as 
heir-at-law." He wills to sons, Gilbert and Benjamin, "my upper 
farm, which I bought of William Fowler and Joseph Sutton, to 
be divided between them." The will describes Gilbert's part by 
metes and bounds, which shows that Gilbert was then living on 
or near it. "Benjamin to have the rest." Gives "the sawmill to 
both." Leaves "my lower farm to my sons, Lewis, Joseph and 
Jonathan." Leaves to son-in-law, Gilbert Purdy, "my leased 
farm in Courtlandt Manor, as by lease from Henry Beekman and 
wife, Gertruyd, dated 1761." Mentions "grandchildren, John, 
Stephen, Jesse, Ezekiel, Gilbert and Smith, sons of my son Will- 



22 FAMILY HISTORY 

iam. Mentions daughters, Martha, wife of John Brundige, Jr. ; 
Elizabeth, wife of Gilbert Purdy; Amy, wife of Ezekiel Flewel- 
ling. Witnesses : Samuel Cheeseman, Caleb Hyatt and Solomon 
Searles. 

William Ogden was buried in Trinity church-yard, West- 
chester, N. Y. The inscription on his tomb is : 

"Here lieth the body of William Ogden, who, during the 
course of a long life, fulfilled the duties of a son, a friend, a hus- 
band and a father in an exemplary manner. To whose memory 
Capt. Benjamin Ogden, his son, has caused this stone to be 
erected. He died April, 1783, aged jy years." 

The children of William Ogden and his wife, Martha, as 
mentioned in his will, are : 

1. William Ogden, oldest son, whose children are also 

mentioned in will, of whom Jesse Ogden is the an- 
cestor of the "JoHcure Ogdens," N. B. 

2. Gilbert Ogden; no record. It is probable he is the Gil- 

bert Ogden on the Roster of N. Y. State Troops. 

3. Benjamin Ogden. On the stone which he erected to his 

father's memory, he calls himself Captain Benjamin 
Ogden. "Capt. Ogden's commission was issued Oct. 
19, jf775, i'l North Castle, South Company, Second 
(Middle) ^t^\vcvtx\.\"— Archives of N. Y. Vol. i. pp. 
304. After the "Declaration of Independence" he 
seems to have changed his mind and joined the Brit- 
ish Army. He must not be confounded with his cou- 
sin, Lieut. Benjamin Ogden (sometimes called Capt. 
Benjamin) who married Rachel Westervelt. Both 
these officers served in the campaign in South Caro- 
lina, under Tarleton, and both were at the battle of 



CAPT. BENJAMIN OGDEN. 23 

Camden. This Capt. Benjamin Ogden is the same 
who commanded a company of Dragoons in His 
Majesty's Battalion of Provincial Chasseurs, under 
Col. Andrew Emmerick, a German officer of repute. 
This battalion was composed of companies from loyal 
regiments, raised in New York and New Jersey, and 
served on outpost and other dangerous duty around 
New York during 177S and 1779. Capt. Ogden's com- 
mission was dated May i, 1778. The corps was formed 
as follows : 

I Company of Dragoons, Capt. Ogden. 

I Company of Chasseurs, Capt. Vanderburgh. 

I Company of Chasseurs, Capt. Huck. 

I Company of Riflemen, Capt. Althouse. 
(From Mr. Jonas Howe, corresponding secretary, 
Neiv Brunszvick Hist. Soc, and custodian of the Mus- 
ter Rolls, etc.— St. John, N. B.) 

There is a tradition which we heard in New 
Brunswick, while beating up the British Provinces for 
Ogden information in 1896, that Capt. Benjamin went 
to England with the army after the war. He, like 
other British soldiers, was given lands in Canada after 
the war. He never took it up. His oldest son, 
Joseph, in 1791, just before his father's death, went 
to get it, but was intercepted by Indians. The land 
is thought to be in the neighborhood of Toronto. 
About the year 1815, his descendants made another 
effort to obtain it. 

Edward Vermilye, a private in the same regi- 
ment (Emmerick's), made affidavit in 1815, to the 
above facts in an effort on the part of the heirs to 
obtain the grant. His affidavit has been preserved. 
Joseph Ogden was also of Emmerick's Dragoons. 

Capt. Benjamin Ogden is said to have been en- 



24 FAMILY HISTORY. 



dowed with a large frame and Herculean strength, 
and was called "General Ben" in the family. A story 
is told of how the soldiers used to tie him in his sleep 
with cords or withes, for the pleasure of seing him 
break them when he awoke. He married Hannah, 
daughter of Robert and Maphlet Flewelling, of North 
Castle. His sister, Amy, married Ezekiel Flewelling, 
brother of Hannah, and oldest son of Robert and 
Maphlet. We know this from Robert Flewelling's 
will, which was proved July 15, 176&.—See Westchest- 
er Wills (Pelletreau). 

Benjamin Ogden and his wife, Hannah, on May 
I, 1776, sell land in North Castle, Westchester Co., 
N. v., to John Green and John Seals, 157 acres, for 
500 pounds.— rF/u7(7 Plains Record, B. I., p. 175. 



The children of Capt. Benjamin and Hannah (Flewelling) 
Ogden) : 



Joseph Ogden; m. Phebe Vermilye; b. Aug. 
7, 1774. From them are descended the 
"Troy and Albany Ogdens." He died 
June 14, 1807. 

WiLMONT Ogden. She died 1790, and was 
buried in the church yard of Trinity 
Church, Fishkill, N. Y. The inscription on 
her monument reads : "Sacred to the mem- 
ory of Wilmot Ogden, only daughter of 
Capt. Benjamin Ogden, as a proof of his 
affection and affliction, who departed this 
life Oct. 14, 1790, in the 226. year of her 



WILLIAM'S GRANDCHILDREN. 25 

age." Her disconsolate father has erected 
this monument. 
Benjamin Ogden; b. 1771. Dec. 24; d. 1823, 
April 17; m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Key- 
ser, a wealthy burger, who owned and oc- 
cupied a large tract near the present corner 
of Bowery and Hester Street, New York. 
Here she was born and died. Benjamin 
was a "surgeon barber" and was well pat- 
ronized by the physicians of his time as a 
cupper and leecher." — From Med. Academy 
Notes. 

Their children were: i John. 2 
WiLMOTH. 3 Benjamin. 4 Maria E. 5 
George Keyser. 6 John William. 7 Eliza. 
8 Ann Margaret. 9 Thomas Brooks, id 
Henry. 

Of these children, Benjamin (3) 
graduated at Columbia and received diplo- 
ma 1S20, Col. Physicians and Surgeons, 
and was the first president of that Alumni 
Association; also president Medical Soci- 
ety, New York. House physician at Belle- 
vue, 1834-1839. He was a philanthropist. 
For many years was trustee of St. James' 
Lutheran Church, New York, to which 
he left a large bequest. He died Novem- 
ber 9, 1855. There is a fine portrait of him 
in Sanford Hall, at Flushing, Long Island, 
N. Y. 

4. Lewis Ogden, brother of Capt. Benjamin Ogden. men- 

tioned in his father William's will; no further record. 

5. Joseph Ogden; b. Jan. 28, 1725; d. Feb. 18, 181 1; m. 



26 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Mary , who d. May 9, 1803. They and their 

sons, Benjamin and William, are buried at Storm- 
ville, Dutchess Co., N. Y. From them are descended 
the "Stormville Ogdens." To this branch belongs D. 
Ogden Mills of New York. 
6. Jonathan Ogden. He is the ancestor of the Ogdens 
of Sackville, N. B., from whom we gathered much of 
the following: He was a British officer, and they 
tell of how he died in prison on Long Island rather 
than "surrender," which being interpreted may mean, 
take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Govern- 
ment. He was stout hearted as his brother, "Gen. 
Ben," and his own remark, as handed down, was that 
sooner than "surrender," he would let the flies carry 
him out through the keyhole. A prophecy as well as 
an epigram. He is in all probability the Jonathan 
Ogden referred to in the following: "Mr. George 
Talbot gives i6oo sterling for encouragement of relig- 
ion among the poor of North Castle, delivered into 
the hands of Col. MacDonald, Jonathan Ogden and 
Charles Haight, by the approbation of the late Mr. 
Wetmore." Dec. 1761. 

Stamford, Conn., March 25, 1761, by Mr. Dibble, 
to the Secretary of Society. 

"He married a Miss Bloomer and lived on the 
Hudson River, about half way between New York 
and Albany." 

They had three sons: John, b. Feb. 6, 1765; 
FIenry and Bloomer. John came, when twelve years 
old, to Fort Cumberland, head of Bay of Fundy, with* 
Capt. Kipp, who took charge of him. The other two 

•Capt. Kipp, a British ofRcer fought in Westchester County, in 1780. He is men- 
tioned In Frank Moore's Diary of the Revolutionary War. '• Colonel Wells expressed 
his astonishment at the bravery of the conquerors and acknowledged the humanity 
and great civility of Lieut. James Kipp who commanded the attack against him and to 
whom he surrounded." 



SACKVILLE OGDENS. 27 

boys came some time later with their mother in care 
of a cousin, named Jonathan Ogden. (This is the 
Jonathan Ogden, son of Michael, who went up the 
St. John River to settle, where he received crown 
grant at Greenwich, Kings Co., N. B., and died there 
in 1847, aged 97). 

The mother died and was buried near Fort Law- 
rence, which was the old French Fort Beausejour. 

John Ogden, the eldest of the three boys, mar- 
ried Ann, daughter of John Fawsitte, from York- 
shire, Eng. Years afterward, a man came from New 
York to persuade him to return and claim his father's 
property for himself and brothers, which he assured 
him was worth at least six thousand pounds sterling. 
John would not go. He hated the United States and 
would never live under the American flag. The prop- 
erty was at or near a place called White , 

something, N. Y. (They could not recall the name). 
John had a grant in Cumberland Co., N. B., and a 
pension of £10 sterling a year as long as he lived. 
Some of his descendants are now living in the old 
homestead where he lived and died. 

The children of John and Ann (Fawsitte) 
Ogden are : 

William Ogden; b. Mar. 4, 1793. 

John Fawsitte Ogden; b. May 14, 1795. 

Henry Ogden; b. Mar. 23, 1798. 

Jane Ogden; b. Aug. 18, 1800. 

Thomas Ogden; b. Dec. 26, 1802. 

Ann Ogden; b. June 3, 1806. 

Bloomer Ogden; b. Nov. 2"], 1809. 

Robert Daniel Ogden; b. May 31, 1813. 

— From John Ogden' s Bible. 



28 FAMILY HISTORY. 

John's brother, Henry Ogden, was crippled by an 
accident and never married. Bloomer Ogden, the 
youngest of the three boys, went up the Pettecodiac 
River to settle. He married a Miss Jonah. 

When in Sackville, N. B., we were entertained 
by John Ogden's grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam M. Ogden, and their charming and accomplished 
daughters, Ethel, Greta and Halburton. We met also 
other descendants of John Ogden in that vicinity, to 
whom thanks are due for kind assistance in procuring 
Ogden information in New Brunswick. Alfred Ogden. 
formerly member from Guysburo to House of Assem- 
bly, is another grandson of John Ogden and Ann 
Fawsitte. He had charge of the Government Fisher- 
ies at Canso. 

IV. John Ogden had son, Joseph, and daughter, Mary. 
Some presumption arises that he was dead when his mother's will 
was made, in 1765, because he is not named in it, but only his 
children. 

V. Susannah Ogden. She married Samuel Wilson, son of 
Jeremiah and Mary. He died 1751. He came from Block Island 
and settled at Rye, on King street. Operated a ferry to Oyster 
Bay. Susannah, his wife, died 1770. Their children, disclosed by 
the will of Samuel Wilson, dated August i, 1750, proved Novem- 
ber 25, 175 1, were: 

Children : 

I. Samuel Wilson; m. Phebe Lyon, dau. of Thomas and 
Phebe . He died July 2, 1756. 



JONATHAN OGDEN. 29 

2. Joseph; b. Aug. 30, 1726; d. June 15, 1871 ; m. Eunice 

Brown, dau. of Samuel Brown and Hannah Merritt, 
of Rye. 

3. William; d. 1763; unmarried. 

4. Susannah; m. Kniffen, of Rye. 

5. Mary; b. 1730; d. May 19, 1813; m. Roger Lyon, of 

North Castle. 

Each of Samuel's Sons was given one-third 
interest in the ferry to Oyster Bay, by his will. 

VI. Jonathan Ogden, born about 1700, died 1750- 1753. 
His wife, Willmont, died 1753. In his will he styles himself "of 
the city of New York, Innkeeper." The Inn which he kept was one 
of some celebrity, "at the sign of the Black Horse," in upper Queen 
street (now Pearl). "It was a traveler's inn. There the Boston 
Post had its headquarters, which ran weekly in summer and 
fortnightly in winter," the rapid transit of the period. Its terminus 
at the "Black Horse" made that famous hostelrie and "booking 
office" the Grand Central Station for New England travel. 

Mr. Pelletreau, in a note appended to Jonathan Ogden's will, 
locates it next above the present building of Harper and Brothers. 
This seems to us to correspond with the description in the deed 
for the property as sold by Jonathan's executors after his death. 

Among the numerous placards hanging upon the walls of the 
generous "cofifee room" of the "Black Horse," with its sanded 
floor and red-tiled fireplace piled with huge logs, as it is pictured 
by a writer who is describing this very Inn, was a sort of itinerary, 



30 FAMILY HISTORY. 

entitled, "The several stages from the City of New York to Bos- 
ton, and where travelers can be accommodated." 

"From New York to Boston is accounted 254 miles. From 
the post office in New York to Joe Clapp's, in the Bouwerie, is 2 
miles (which generally is the bating place, where gentlemen take 
leave of their friends going so long a journey, and where a parting 
glass of generous wine," 'if well applied, makes their dull horses 
feel, one spur in the head's worth two in the heel.' " 

"From Clapp's to the Half-way house is 7 miles 

Thence to King's Bridge is 9 " 

" Old Shute's, East Chester 6 " 

" " New Rochelle Meeting House 4 " 

" Joseph Horton's 4 " 

" Denham's at Rye 4 " 

" Knap's at Horse Neck 7 " 

" Dan. Weed's at Stamford 7 " 

" Belden's, Norwalk 10 " 

" Burr's, Fairfield 10 " 

" Knowles', Stratford 8 " 

" Andrew Sanford's, Milford 4 " 

" " Widow Frisbie's, Branford 10 „ 

" John Hobson's, Guilford 10 " 

" " John Grinell's, Killingworth 10 " 

" " John Clark's, Seabrook 10 " 



A FAMOUS BANQUET. 31 

Thence to Mr. Blum's, New London 10 miles 

" Mr. Saxton's 15 " 

" Mr. Pemberton's, Narragansett County .... 15 " 

" Frenchtown 24 " 

" Mr. Turpin's 20 " 

" Mr. Woodcock's 15 " 

" Billing's Farm 11 " 

" "White's 6 " 

" Fishe's 6 " 

and thence to the great town of Boston, 10 miles, where many 

good lodgings and accommodations may be had for love and 

money." 

A famous banquet was given at the ''Black Horse," in the 
year 1733. It was given by the most distinguished citizens of 
New York, to Lewis Morris, late Chief Justice of the Province 
of New York, and the first Governor of the Province of New Jer- 
sey, in honor of his election as a representative for the county of 
Westchester to the Provincial Legislature. 

The account of the oration to Morris, from the New York 
Weekly Journal of Monday, December 24, 1733, "containing the 
freshest advices, foreign and domestic," is as follows : 

New York, November 5th. — "On Wednesday, 31st October, the late 
Chief Justice, but now representative for the County of Westchester, landed 
in this city about five o'clock in the evening, at the ferry stairs. On his 



32 FAMILY HISTORY. 

landing he was saluted by a general fire of the guns from the merchant 
vessels lying in the road, and was received by great numbers of the most 
considerable merchants and inhabitants of this city, and by them, with loud 
acclamations of the people as he walked the streets, conducted to the Black 
Horse tavern, where a handsome entertainment was prepared for him at 
the charge of the gentlemen who received him, and in the middle of one 
side of the room was fixed a tablet with golden capitals. 'KING GEORGE, 
LIBERTY AND LAW!'" 

It was in honor of Lewis Morris that Morristown and Mor- 
ris County, N. J., were named, when in 1738, they came into 
political existence, he being then Provincial Governor. 

Jonathan Ogden was a native of North Castle. In the records 
of the Parish Church, of Rye, N. Y., he is mentioned as vestry- 
man, in 1 73 5- 1 736. He first appears on the records of the town 
on April 6, 1736, when he was chosen constable and also pounder 
at town meeting. Both were offices of responsibility and import- 
ance in those times, and in a farming community. It does not ap- 
pear whether he accepted and served. 

The following Ogdens have the "earmarks" of their cattle 
registered in North Castle : 

1717 — Jonathan Ogden. 
1717 — Daniel Ogden. 

1738, April 7 — Jonathan Ogden. 

1739, April 3 — William Ogden. 
I739> June 3 — Albert Ogden. 



EARMARKING. 33 

1739, June 3 — Obadiah Ogden. 
1739, June 3 — Benjamin Ogden. 

"Earmarking" is a method of branding cattle that are ex- 
pected to run at large with those of other owners upon pastures in 
which there is a common right, that ownership may afterwards 
be distinguished. It is a means of proving property. The Jona- 
than and William above mentioned may be the sons of Susannah, 
named in her will, and the two Jonathans may be father and son. 
The others are probably relatives, but the dates do not fit the Al- 
bert and Benjamin of whom we have record. We have found 
descendants of Obediah Ogden, who was doubtless a near relation 
to Jonathan, of North Castle, but no dates can be found to verify 
it. When Jonathan went from North Castle to New York cannot 
be told. Mrs. Sophia Wetmore Lovell's tradition is as follows : 

"Jonathan Ogden was a master builder in ante Revolutionary days — 
man of energy and industry — and was one of the builders of Old Trinity 
Church." 

Trinity Church, built in 1696 on the site of the Trinity of 
to-day, was enlarged and improved in 1737. It was destroyed by 
the great fire of 1776, and rebuilt in 1790 on the same site. The 
date, 1737, fits very well the probable time of his living in New 
York, but no record has yet been found to confirm it. Trinity 
Church has always been, and is still, the church of the family in 



34 FAMILY HISTORY. 

New York, where some of Jonathan's descendants now attend 
its services. 

"Jonathan Ogden was admitted a Freeman of New York City on May 
3d, 1747, and appears on the list as 'Jonathan Ogden, Yeoman,' " — N. Y. 
Hist. Sco. Coll., 1885. 

This gave him the right to all the privileges and immunities of 
the city. He must have been a resident there long before that 
date, in accordance with his interest there. His neighbors and 
friends, of North Castle, were still maintaining some hold upon 
him for, on April i, 1746, he was appointed a trustee (with 
Benoni Piatt) "for the middle patent of North Castle to clean up 
the Quitrents." This was a responsible trust, demanding much 
more than ordinary good judgment and a knowledge of local 
rights and customs, and shows a high degree of confidence in him. 

Jonathan was still a property holder in North Castle, own- 
ing a sawmill in Middle Patent, and perhaps other real estate. 

Surrogate's Office, New York. 

Jonathan Ogden's Will, Liber 18, page 268; dated 1750, Oct. 11. 
Proved 1753, Feb. 16. 

In the name of God, Amen. I, Jonathan Ogden, of the city of New 
York, innkeeper, being at present sick and weak, but of sound and dispos- 
ing mind, memory and understanding, (blessed be God therefor), and 

knowing that it is appointed to all men once to die, do make this my last 
will and testament, as follows : 

First. — I recommend my precious and immortal soul unto Almighty 



JONATHAN OGDEN'S WILL. 35 

God, my creator, hoping and only trusting for mercy in and through the 
meritorious death and passion of the Blessed and Glorious Son of God, 
my Lord and only Saviour and Redeemer, and my body I recommend to 
the earth to be buried in a Christian-like and decent manner at the dis- 
cretion of my executors hereinafter named, and as for and touching the 
disposition of all such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bless me 
with, I give, devise and dispose thereof (after payment of all my just 
debts and funeral charges) in the following manner and form, viz: 

Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my beloved son, Jonathan Ogden, 
the sum of twenty pounds current money of New York, to be paid out of 
my real and personal estate immediately after my decease, by my executor 
or executors in full and entire, bar of all claim, pretence or demand as be- 
ing my eldest son and heir-at-law. 

Item. To my well beloved son, Albert, I give and bequeath my saw- 
mill, in Middle Patent, immediately after my decease, to take the same in 
possession. 

Item. I give, devise and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife, Will- 
mont Ogden, one full and equal third part, share and proportion of all and 
singular, the rest residue and remainder of my whole real and personal 
estate, whatever and wherever none excepted or reserved, together with my 
negro wench, named Luce, to have and to hold the one-third part of my 
real and personal estate, together with my said negro wench, named Luce, 
unto her my said dear and loving wife, Willmont Ogden, her heirs and 
assigns forever. 

The other two-thirds part of my real and personal estate, none ex- 
cepted or reserved, I give and bequeath to my said dear and loving wife, 
Willmont Ogden, for and during the term and time she remain my widow, 
to have, take, receive, enjoy and dispose of the interest, rents, issues, goods 
and profits thereof for and towards her maintenance and support and for 
and towards the better support, maintenance and education of my children 
till their respective ages of 21 years or days of marriage. In case of re- 
marriage or death of my said wife, or which shall first happen, I give, devise 
and bequeath the said other or remaining two-thirds, &c. of my real and 
personal estate, &c., (none reserved), unto and among all my loving chil- 



36 FAMILY HISTORY. 

dren, share and share alike, except my eldest daughter, named Freelove, 
who has already received her portion. If one or more of my said children 
shall die in his or her or their minority, under the age of 21 years, and 
without issue, the said share and shares shall be equally shared and divided 
among the survivors, share and share alike, and their heirs and assigns 
forever. Power to sell granted executors. Executors : Wife, Willmont 
and friends, John Tiebout and David Purdy. Witnesses : John Thomas, 
Robert Benson, Anthony Rutgers. 



David Purdy, of Rye, and John Tiebout, of the city of New 
York, the executors surviving, (his wife, Wilmot, being dead), on 
March 27 and 28, 1753, conveyed the Inn property to John Hal- 
stead of Elizabeth Town by Deed. — A^ Y. Records, Liber 34, 
P- 392- 

The description of the property is as follows : "For house and 
lot in Montgomerie Yard, city of New York, bounded on N. E. 
to Swamp or Cupple Bush, and S. E. to highway or street that 
leads from Fly or Queen street to the fresh water, containing in 
breadth in front to said highway or street 35 feet, 7 inches. In 
length on each side to said swamp 244 feet, and in breadth in rear 
25 feet, being the same lot of ground that Robert North and 
Catherine, his wife, by deed of lease and release, dated 5 and 6 
February, 1748, sold to said Jonathan Ogden." 

John Tiebout was one of the first twenty-four firemen of the 
city of New York, who were appointed September 19, 1738, under 
an Act of Assembly, "all strong, able, discreet, honest and sober 



ONE OF THE FIRST FIREMEN. 37 

men." They were to take charge of the celebrated "Nevvham" 
fire engine, then first introduced from England, whose coming 
marked the era. 



Ebir^ feneration. 

Children of Jonathan Ogden, whose wife was Willmont or 
Wilmot. 

I Jonathan. 2 Freelove. 3 Albert. 4 Benjamin. 5 
Susannah, 6 Wilmot. 7 Parthenla. 

Capt. Jonathan Ogden. He was the eldest son and was 
born about 172 — , which can only be fixed by that of Albert, the 
next son, which is known to be 1726. His wife was Rachel Van- 
der Heyden. Their record in Genealogy of the Frst Settlers of 
Schenectady (Pierson) is: "Jonathan Ogden, capitayn van het, 
Niew Yorshe regiment, van Westchester ; married Rachel, daugh- 
ter Joachim Vander Heyden, of Albany, December 10, 1758. He 
^yas an innkeeper, and occupied lot No. 24, Church street, next 
south of the Tomlinson lot." 

"Joachim, son of Dirk Vander Heyden, of Albany, married 
Bata, daughter of Johnannes Clute, of Konnestagiome, Banns. 
July 10, 1730. Derrick Vander Heyden established the West 
Troy ferry soon after he purchased the land upon which the city of 
Troy now stands, 1707." 

Hist. Albany County; p. 979. 



CAPT. JONATHAN OGDEN. 39 

Dirk or Derrick Vander Heyden, the progenitor of the fam- 
ily, was an innkeeper in Albany in the early part of the last cen- 
tury. Besides the "Poesten Bourvery" enterprise he was a specu- 
lator in leases in Schaghticoke, which were then attracting the 
attention of the Albany capitalists. The Common Council, having 
cautiously weighed the matter, allowed eight farms to be leased 
there which were actually drawn by lot out of the Mayor's hat. 
Dirk Vander Heyden, in 1717, was "ye highest bidder for one- 
third part of a small flatt of six Morgens on south side of Schagh- 
ticoke Creek, together with 5^ of 60 Morgen of woodland adjoin- 
ing, at £75 and a yearly rent of 30 bushels of winter wheat etc." 

From "Reminiscences of Troy," by John Woodivorth. 

Dirk Vander Heyden died 1738, and was buried at Albany. 
His house, which was famous in early days, was built in 1752. 

The old Vander Heyden Bible is now in the possession of 
JMrs. Pray, of Albany, who is a descendant of Parthenia Ogden 
and Jesse Conde. 

The very interesting military history of Capt. Ogden can be 
traced from the records of his time. He appears in the muster 
roll for July, 1755, as Second Lieut, of Capt. Isaac Corso's com- 
pany. This company was part of the New York regiment raised 
for the campaign against the French in 1755, under Gen. William 
Johnson, and took part in the battle of Lake George, September 8, 



40 FAMILY HISTORY. 

1755, in which the French were defeated. Capt. Jonathan Ogden 
had a company before July 30, 1756. On that date Lieut. Elisha 
Abeel's commission as Second Lieut, in Capt. Jonathan Ogden's 
company was signed. He is referred to in the Journal of Capt. 
Robert Rogers, the famous New Hampshire scout, and again in a 
letter from a gentleman at Fort William Henry, written July 26, 
1757, describing a battle in which out of about 13 officers and 350 
men, "Col. Parker and Capt. Ogden are the only two officers that 
escaped with life, the latter much wounded in the head." Col. 
Parker was brother of Courtland Parker's grandfather. 

L Jonathan Ogden married December 10, 1758, Rachel 
Vander Heyden and no doubt settled at Schenectady, where he 
Kept an inn at 24 Church street. Pearson says, "Johannes Fairly 
had a lot in 1766 on east side of Church street, opposite Jonathan 
Ogden's Inn, south of Union street. He was one of the church 
wardens of Schenectady in 1765." We quote the following from 
Doc. His. of N. Y., Vol. IV, as giving an idea of the church affairs 
of that time : 

"Churchmen of Schenectady, to Sir Win. Johnson: 

Sirs — As the congregation of the Church of England have come to a 
resolution to petition His Excellency, the Governor, to grant them a 
charter to secure their rights and privileges in the church built here, they 
beg leave to lay their petition before you for your approbation, and like- 
wise beseech you to honour them with an acceptance of being one of the 
trustees in the charter, if one can be obtained, as we then can have no 



CAPT. JONATHAN OGDEN. 41 

doubt if a gentleman of your known merit and character will espouse our 
cause, it will prevent for the future the Presbyterians from making any 
unjust attempts on the privileges in the church. We hope you will grac- 
iously honour us with an answer as soon as your leisure will permit, which 
will confer the most grateful obligation on our congregation and in a par- 
ticular manner on your honor's most 

Obedient and humble servants, 

J. W. Brown, 
Matthew Lyne, 
Rich'd. Cullin, 
Jonathan Ogden." 

The children of Jonathan Ogden and Rachel Vander Heyden, 

as found in "First Settlers Schenectady," are: 

Susannah ; bap. Aug. 3, 1764. (Mrs. Brown says she m. 

Hoffman). 

John; m. Alida Nesbit. Children: 

Joseph, 1784. 

Timothy, 1786. 

Perhaps Jonathan moved to Schaghticoke, for in the church 
records there is this entry : "Albert, May 22, 1777, child of Jona- 
than Ogden and Rachel Vander Heyden. Sponsors — William 
Spotten and Elizabeth Holloway." 

Taken by Mr. Lawrence Van Alstyne. 

No further trace is found of him until 1796, when we find him 
through the medium of Andrew Ogden's letter, at Charlton, Sara- 
toga Co., a land holder in affluent circumstances, having lately 



42 FAMILY HISTORY. 

come, as the letter states. Mrs. Brown says he went to New Jer- 
sey from Charlton, but nothing more has been learned about him. 

II. Freelove Ogden, eldest daughter, who had received 
her portion before 1750. No trace of her later has been found. 

III. Albert Ogden, born 1726, who, under the will of his 
father, was given "the sawmill in Middle Patent immediately after 
my decease, to take the same into possession." The will of Albert 
Ogden, "of North Castle," dated April i, 1773, proved July i, 
1784, gives to wife, Phebe, the furniture and plate. All the rest 
to be sold. Gives to "my brother, Jonathan, 5 shillings and no 
more." All the proceeds of the estate, after paying debts (and 
legacies), given to "wife Phebe Ogden, forever." 

N. y. Wills. L. 39; p. 85. 

* 

Its terms indicate that there were no children then living, 

(1773)- 

He died July 3, 1782, aged 56 years, 2 months. He is buried 
in St. Paul's church yard, New York City. 

IV. Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, "born June 22, 1735, died 
1780, August 16; married Rachel Westervelt, who was born 1735, 
July 5, and died 1829, July 2." 

Bible Record. 



RACHEL WESTERVELT. 43 

Mrs. Lovell's narrative says, "he was of New York, (her 
mother and father being natives of Holland.") It also calls her 
Rachel Von Westervelt. Nothing more than this is certainly 
known of her ancestry, but there is a faint tradition that she came 
from Bergen County, New Jersey. In passing we note the fol- 
lowing: "Lubbert Lubberston Von Westervelt came with his 
brother, William Lubberston, and their families, from Meppel, 
Province Dreuth, Holland, in the ship 'Hope,' April, 1662, and 
settled in Bergen County, New Jersey." 

Am. Ancestry; Vol. 3. 

In the genealogical "History of Bergen and Hudson count- 
ies," by C. B. Harvy, is another reference to Westervelt family, 
which we quote, as a suggestion to some genealogical traveler vis- 
iting Holland : "The Westervelts or Von Westervelts, as they 
once called themselves, are another of the very prolific families of 
Bergen and Hudson counties. Should the traveler happen to 
journey through the Province of Overyssel, in Holland, about a 
mile east of the coast of the Zuyder Zee on the highroad from 
Deventer to Groningen, he will pass through a considerable town 
called Mippel. 

"In the middle of the 17th century the town was a mere ham- 
let. Three miles east was the town of Zwolle, where Thomas a 
Kempis for half a century resided, and where he wrote his famous 

book, of the 'Imitation of Christ,' and where he died about 147 1. 



44 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Of the brothers Von Westervelt who came from Holland in 
1662, William settled at New Utrecht, L. I. Lubbert, with his 
wife, Gessie Roeloff Van Houten, and family, went to Flatbush, 
where he acquired much land and a number of slaves. Upon his 
death, near the end of the century, his sons, Lubbert, Jr., Roeloff, 
John and Jurian, went to Bergen County, New Jersey, and settled. 
Lubbert's two daughters, Margretie and Mary, married and set- 
tled at New Hackensack. 

"The descendants of these four sons and two daughters of 
Lubbert Lubbetson Von Westervelt. intermarrying with the Dem- 
arests, Nouglas, Harings, Blauvelts, and others, became a mighty 
host." 

In the Holland Soc. Coll., we find Roeloff, Lubberse and Jurie 
Westervelt in Hackensack Dutch Church records, also Margriete 
Lubberse Westervelt, and in Schraalenburgh Dutch Church, Ber- 
gen County, of those who were transferred from Hackensack 
prior to 1733, Rachel Westervelt. In the marriage record, Octo- 
ber 29, 1 73 1, Abram Cool and Rachel Westervelt were married — 
both born and living at Schraalenburgh. 

Our Rachel was born a generation later. 

At the time of his father's death in New York, about 1753, 
Benjamin would not have been over 18 years old. We may assume 
he was Hving there and unmarried. The next trace we have is in 
the list of Freeman, of New York, "1758, May 23, Benjamin Og- 



BENJAMIN OGDEN. 45 

den." He was married before this, for we find the baptism of his 
first child in Trinity Church records, as follows : 

Dorothea, dau. Benjamin and Rachel Ogden, b. Sept. 20, 
1759; bap. Oct. 14. She died young. Benjamin Og- 
den, Sarah Barrenock, (Sponsors). 

Some old records show that Benjamin and his wife, Rachel, 
had at one time considerable property in New York City, He 
calls himself "house carpenter" in one of them. This is one of 
several references to early Ogdens of this family as being carpen- 
ters, builders or architects. He seems also to have had a lease 
of some Trinity Church property which the record describes as, 
"known on the map of that part of the church farm which lies to 
southward of the stockadoes" — which was by the rector and inhab- 
itants of city of New York in communion of the church of Eng- 
land, as by law established on 28th day of February, 1760, leased 
to said Benjamin Ogden for term of 20 years from 25th day of 
March, then ensuing. 

Many years elapse before we can know more about him cen- 
tainly. There was more than one Benjamin Ogden in the fam- 
ily at this time, and it may be his cousin of that name who, in 
1775, we find signing a protest against the action of the people of 
Westchester County in supporting the sending of delegates to the 
Continental Congress, to meet in Philadelphia. At all events they 



46 FAMILY HISTORY. 

were both of one mind in their loyalty to King George, the Third, 
and they were willing to hazard their lives and properties to sup- 
port the cause they believed to be right. 

Mr. Jonas Howe, corresponding secretary New Brunswick 
Historical Society, and custodian of the muster rolls, etc., gave 
us the following : 

"Lieutenant Benjamin Ogden served in the Prince of Wales 
American Regiment during 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, and in 
South Carolina his name seems to have been dropped after that 
year. Benjamin Ogden and Albert Ogden were volunteers in 
Capt. Bridgenerter's company, in same regiment, during 1779, 
1780 and 1 78 1. 

"Volunteers were generally young men, relatives of officers 
often, who served as privates in hope of gaining a commission. 
Those two were doubtless kinsmen of Lieut. Ogden." 

We know now that they were his sons. Their father was 
wounded in a skirmish at the battle of Camden, S. C, and while 
lying in his tent in his son Benjamin's arms, he was killed by a 
spent ball, August 16, 1780. This story is confirmed by the record 
found in the Bible of his granddaughter, Cornelia Ann Hierlihy 
Ogden, at Shelburne, N. S., as follows : 

"Captain Benjamin Ogden wounded in a skirmish at Utah Springs, 
battle of Camden, S. C, and died in his tent in his son's arms." 



BENJAMIN OGDEN. 47 

There is no doubt about his being entitled to the rank of cap- 
tain for efficient service rendered, which only his death prevented 
his receiving, but on the muster rolls is only the record of his first 
commission as lieutenant. 

[NOTE. The battle of Camden was fought Aug. 15, 1780. The 
skirmish of Utah Springs, above mentioned, must not be confounded with 
the battle of Eutaw Springs, which occurred Sept. 8, 1781, and was the 
last battle of the Revolutionary War. Eutaw Springs is about half way 
bettween Camden and Charleston, and 40 miles from either.] 

From Col. Tarleton's "History of the Campaign of 1780 and 
1781 in the Southern Province of North America," published in 
1787, we quote this account of some skirmishing in which Benja- 
min Ogden may have been wounded : 

"Thirty or forty picked men to seize or drive away some very violent 
rebels on the west bank of the Wateree, 30 miles from Camden. All were 
killed but twelve, Capt. Huck among the number." 

From Mrs. Lovell's narrative we learn that "during her hus- 
band's absence Mrs. Ogden sent her four children to a brother's 
or sister's farm, near Rye, Westchester Co., N. Y., and was her- 
self offered a shelter on one of the English ships in N. Y. harbor, 
where she remained for some time." This must have been before 
1779, when the two eldest boys became volunteers. While at the 



48 FAMILY HISTORY. 

farm, Rachel Ogden, the eldest child, took charge of her brothers, 
making and repairing their clothing.. 

From "Todd's Hist, of N. Y., we get this picture of that 
time of struggle : "New York was not a pleasant place of resi- 
dence during these seven years. Martial law, with its rigors, bore 
heavily upon the people. They were in constant fear, too, of an 
attack from the Americans. Then the burned district added to 
by another great fire in August, 1778, was covered with a city of 
tents and cabins that sheltered the vilest banditti of the British 
army, so that no citizen felt himself safe in the streets after dark, 
while the presence of the hospitals and prison houses harrowed the 
souls of the pitiful. 

Business was suspended. Many were in want. Only the 
wealthier royalists were sad when, on the 25th of November, 1783, 
the rear guard of the British army embarked at the Battery and, 
with crestfallen air, rowed away to their ships. 

Another army followed the retreating British to their ships. 
The American loyalists who, having adhered to the crown, had 
now no part in the new country, and whom the bitter resentment 
of the Whigs, if not their own pride, would have forced into exile. 
According to British official reports, dated November 24, 1783, 
29,244 men, women and children had, up to that date, been fur- 
nished transportation to Canada. Not all were loyalists ; there 



FLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES. 49 

were soldiers with their families among them and 3,000 negro 
slaves which were taken by their masters." 

Rachel, the widow of Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, and her sons, 
Benjamin, Albert and Andrew, and her daughter, Rachel, with 
her husband, Captain George Wetmore, whom she had married in 
1777, and their child, Rachel, born in 1778, were among the refu- 
gees who went to the British Provinces at the close of the war. 

The ages of the children at that time were : Rachel, 22 ; Ben- 
jamin, 18; Albert, 14; Andrew, 11.. 

When the summons came for them to go to the ship, they had 
to leave in such haste that they could not wait for the bread which 
was baking in the oven. Most of the silver had previously been 
buried in the garden. A solid silver punch bowl, soup tureen and 
ladle were especially mentioned. All their possessions in New 
York were confiscated. 

We are indebted for much information of this period of fam- 
ily history to Mrs. Cornelia Ogden Whelpley, daughter of Maria 
Purdy (Mrs. Asa Flewelling), the life-long attendant and friend 
of Mrs. Ogden. Maria Purdy's parents died of a fever when she 
was an infant, and Mrs. Ogden took the little orphan and brought 
her up. At the time of her husband's death, in Camden, S. C, 
Rachel had a dream that he stood beside her holding her hand and 
pressing her wedding ring, saying : "Rachel, I am dying, but you 
shall never want." This ring is now in the possession of Maria 



50 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Purdy's grandchildren who guard it jealously, attaching to it a 
kind of superstition that prosperity attends any one who possesses 
it. It is kept in a locket prepared for it. On the inside of the ring 
is inscribed: "Hearts united, live contented." The old family 
Bible, said to have been brought from England, was also obtained 
by gift, by Maria Purdy. 

In response to an inquiry for the family record made by 
Albert, son of Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, many years ago, one leaf 
was cut out and sent to him and it is now in our possession. In 
an effort to obtain the Bible some years ago, we learned that it had 
been sent to be rebound and was never heard of afterwards, and 
thought to have been destroyed in the great fire at St. John, N. B., 
sixty years ago, when all the book binding section was burned. 

Among the refugees were the Purdy, Flewelling, Bloomer, 
and Wetmore families, friends and neighbors of the Ogdens in 
Rye and vicinity, Westchester Co., N. Y. Most of them were 
Royalists or Tories, but some remained friends of the Federal gov- 
ernment. All were people of property and highly respected cit- 
izens of Westchester County. 

Of those who received crown grants, we find recorded at 
Fredericton, N. B. : 



"Albert Ogden, Aug. ii, 1784, 10 acres, St. John, Carleton. 
"Benjamin Ogden, May 18, 1785, town lot 312, Carleton. (Benjamin 
had also a large grant at Antigonish, N. S.) 



TIMOTHY WETMORE. 51 

"Rachel Ogden, Aug. ir, 1784, 250 acres, St. John. 

"Rachel Ogden, May 18, 1785, town lot 261, Carleton. (Rachel also 
received a crown grant of 27,750 acres at Sunbury, N. B. Recorded at 
Halifax, N. S., 1784.") 



Rachel Westervelt, widow of Benjamin Ogden, became the 
wife of Timothy Wetmore, who was also a refugee loyalist and 
went to the British Provinces, in 1783. He was a second cousin 
of her son-in-law, Capt. George Wetmore. (Timothy was a son of 
the Rev. James Wetmore, and George was son of Jeremiah Wet- 
more, son of Jeremiah, son of the Rev. James Wetmore.) Timo- 
thy's first wife was Jane Haviland and their children were James, 
Jane, Anna, Timothy, Fletcher, Thomas F., Luther, Theodore 
and Robert Grififeth. 

This second marriage of Rachel and Timothy seems to have 
been a wise arrangement — not only providing her with a protector, 
but her sons received wise counsel and instruction which proved 
of inestimable value to them. We have not the date of their mar- 
riage. No issue. He was a highly respected and influential citizen 
of Westchester County, N. Y., and an educator of prominence. 
He was the first to receive the honorary degree of A. M. from 
King's College, now Columbia, New York. 

Mrs. Lovell's narrative says : "He was one of the originators 
of the college." King's College was re-chartered by the State of 
New York, in May, 1784, and named Columbia College. William 



52 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Samuel Johnson, its first president, was elected in 1787. — Todd's 
Hist. 

"He was at first sole instructor." — Col. College Catalogue. 

"Timothy Wetmore first studied for the Episcopal ministry, 
but circumstances prevented his going to England for ordination. 
He turned his attention to the study of law and became a prac- 
titioner of considerable importance. He was also learned in med- 
icine, which he studied immediately after graduating. He edu- 
cated his three sons in the three professions in which he was edu- 
cated himself. His loyal sentiments caused him to lose his prop- 
erty." — Wetmore Memorial. 

He was also one of the signers of the protest in 1775. He 
expressed his views, from which we quote to show the attitude of 
some of the Tories at that time : "It is my opinion that the Parlia- 
ment have no right to tax America though they have a right to 
regulate the trade of the Empire. I am further of opinion that 
several acts of Parliament are grievances, and the execution of 
them ought to be opposed in such a manner as may be consistent 
with the duty of a subject to our Sovereign ; though I cannot help 
expressing my disapprobation of many violent proceedings in 
some of the colonies." 

"At the close of the war, 1783, he removed to Nova Scotia, 
where he practiced law for many years and held many offices of 
public trust." Rachel and her husband, Timothy, encountered 



IN THE BRITISH PROVINCES. 53 

hardships in the new country as did most of the refugees. She 
was a brave woman and, though delicate, she accompanied her 
husband on his surveying expeditions in the wilderness, often 
waking in the night, with the snow drifting in on the coverlet. 
They lived very happily all their married life, and were always 
very particular in their religious duties. He used to read a ser- 
mon before breakfast, often as he walked in the garden, always 
having daily prayers. They ended the day by singing the evening 
hymn, "Glory to Thee, My God, this Night," — and if for any rea- 
son they retired earlier than the appointed hour (9 o'clock), they 
sang it sitting up in bed. 

Mr. Wetmore had an old horse named 'Old Feather Legs" 
by Maria Purdy, because of the long hair on its legs and fetlocks,, 
which Mr. Wetmore would not allow to be trimmed, believing it 
a provision of nature and well adapted to protect the old horse 
from that rigorous climate. Maria thought it great fun to make 
the old horse step lively about the yard, much to the old gentle- 
man's annoyance. Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore returned to New York 
in 1800, where they lived near her son, Andrew Ogden, the re- 
mainder of Mr. Wetmore's life. 

Her sons, Albert and Andrew, were wealthy importing mer- 
chants at that time, in New York. 

Mrs. Lovell's narrative says : "She had a small house near that 
of her son Andrew, and one faithful servant, who lived with her 



54 FAMILY HISTORY. 

many years." This was Maria Purdy, afterwards Mrs. Asa 
Flewelling, whose affection for Mrs. Ogden Wetmore and her 
family is thus spoken of in a letter from her daughter, Mrs. Cor- 
nelia Ogden Whelpley, to Albert Ogden's daughter, Margaret, in 
1861 : "Your names are as familiar to me as household words 
^rom hearing of you so constantly from my mother. She lives 
in the past. Few days pass that she does not talk of her early 
friends. Your hand-writing even looked familiar, as she has treas- 
ured your letters through all the changes and vicissitudes of her 
life. She loved your grandmother and grandfather as few chil- 
dren love their own parents. How many times she has told me 
of your grandmother — how kind she always was to her, your 
father, your uncles, your sister and yourself. In fact there is not 
one that she does not cherish the memory of." 

Mrs. Wetmore's son Andrew Ogden, died November 5th, 

1 8 19, and the following year she suffered another affliction in the 
death of her husband, Timothy Wetmore. He died March 21st, 

1820, aged 85. A newspaper clipping of the day, preserved in 
Albert Ogden's Bible, is as follows : 

"DIED. — Yesterday morning, of a lingering illness, which he bore 
with christian resignation, Timothy Wetmore, Esq., in the 85th year of 
his age. Mr. Wetmore was one of the two first who graduated in Columbia 
College. His friends and relatives are respectfully invited to attend his 
funeral, at half-past 4 o'clock, from No. 307 Bowerj', first house above First 
Street." 



RACHEL-OGDEN-WETMORE. 55 

About this time her son Albert met with business reverses 
and was deemed best to return to the British Provinces, where she 
made her home with him and his daughter Margaret in Carle- 
ton. The old house where they lived was still standing in 1895. 
Later they moved to the beautiful old town of Magaguadavick 
or Macadavy, for short, as sometimes called, now named St. 
George, where she died. 

Sometime before her death, her son Albert picked up an 
old newspaper in the street and read that the widows of officers 
should receive their back pensions from the British government, 
which had been discontinued then for a number of years. They 
applied for, and received the money at a time when it was most 
acceptable. 

In April, 1820, Rachel Canfield writes to her uncle, Albert 
Ogden : "I am happy to learn that she is so well." Mrs. Ogden 
Wetmore was very sweet and gentle in her old age, and like a little 
child in disposition. She "died in her granddaughter Margaret's 
arms on the 2d of July, 1829, being 94 years on the day of her 
burial." — Family Bible. 

She was buried in the church yard at St. George, N. B., 
where her tombstone was still standing and in good condition, in 
1895. It was placed there to her memory by her son, Albert Og- 
den, with this inscription : 



56 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Sacred 
to the memory of 

RACHEL, 

formerly widow of 

Lieut. Benjamin Ogden, 

of the P.W.A. Reg't, 

late relict of 

Timothy Wetmore, Esq., 

of this Province. 

She departed this life on 

the 2d July, 1829, 

aged 94 years. 

She truly was a duteous wife and an affectionate mother. 

"Life makes the soul dependant on the dust; 

"Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres." 



V. Susannah Ogden ; b. 1738, May 27 ; m. Henry Dusen- 
berry, 1757; b. 1735, July 28. This is doubtless the same Henry 
Dusenberry, who, in 1775, was captain of the Militia Company of 
Harrison Precinct, in the South Battalion, of Westchester County. 
Their children were : 

Henry Dusenberry ; b. 1757, Nov. 12 ; m. Hannah Purdy.* 

WiLMOT Dusenberry; b. 1759, Feb. 17; m. Joseph Merritt. 

Jemima Dusenberry; b. 1761, Jan. 18; d. young. 

Helena Dusenberry ; b. 1763, Aug. 5 ; m. John Hawkins. 

Freelove Dusenberry ; b. 1766, Nov. 13 ; m. Simeon Tyler. 

Parthenia Dusenberry; b. 1772, Sept. 19; m. ist Peter 
Brown, Mar. 27, 1798. He was a native of Scotland, 
and was b. Nov. 8, 1774; d. Sept. 29, 1799. She m. 
2d, James Glover. There are many descendants. 



WILMOT OGDEN, 57 

"Parthenia Dusenberry, by marriage with Peter 
Brown, had Margaret W., b. Feb. i6, 1799; m. July 
16, 1817, John Pirnie. — See Pirnie rec'd. — {Baird.) 

"Henry Dusenberry, 1721, bought a piece of salt 
marsh on Mannering Island. In 1724, he had land on 
the road from the Purchase to King Street. Henry 
of Harrison, doubtless a son of the above, born July 
28, 1735 ; married Susannah Ogden ; b. May 27, 1738. 
(Her mother was Wilmot Ogden, &c. *Children : 

"Henry; b. Nov. 12, 1757; m. Hannah Budd." — 
Baird's Hist, of Rye. 



VI. Wilmot Ogden; m. Gilbert Miller. Gilbert Miller, in 
his will, proved 1798, February 13, gives to his wife, Wilmot, the 
farm in Ballston, 200 acres, during her life ; other farms to sons, 
Charles, Benjamin, Gilbert, John, Ogden, Elisha, Joseph, Obediah 
— and daughters, Martha and Susannah, who had legacies in 
money. Executors: wife, Wilmot; son, John, and James Emott. 
Witnesses : Jonathan Ogden, Joseph Bettys, Robert Moyston and 
Mary Brown. 

This Gilbert Miller was eldest son of John Miller, Jr., and 
his wife, Sarah, who was daughter of John Miller and Mary 
Holmes. John Miller, Jr., was of Bedford, Westchester County, 
N. Y. His will, proved November 4, 1760, names children, Gil- 
bert, John, Justus, Elisha, Josiah, Susannah. 

The will provides that son, Elisha, was to have his support 
as apprentice with a doctor. We have been informed that this 



58 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Elisha was a physician at North Salem, Westchester County, and 
married Betty Grummond, November 7, 1762 ; died after 1774. 

A deed at Ballston records : 

"Elisha Miller, physician of Ballston, to Elisha Miller, Yeoman, 1793, 
March 30"— B. C. D., p. 369. 

VII. Parthenia Ogden ; b. 1744, July 14; d. 1817, Dec. 11 ; 
m. 1762, July 8, Jesse Conde ; d. July 28, 1818, aged 75 years. 

Children : 



1. Alida Conde; bap. Jan. 16, 1763; m. James Boyd. 

(Mrs. Alice Easton Pray, of Albany, a descendant, is 
preparing a genealogy of this family). 

2. Jonathan Conde; b. 1764; d. 1764. 

3. Jonathan Conde; b. Dec. 14, 1768; m. Sally Thompson. 

4. Adam Conde; b. Feb. 12, 1769; m. Rogers; 15 

children. 

5. Albert Conde; b. June 9, 1771 ; m. Hester Toll. They 

both joined the Freehold church. He, in 1820; she 
she, June 3, 1821. She d. Oct. S, 1857. They had 10 
children. Rev. Daniel Toll Conde, their son, was or- 
dained and went as a missionary to the Sandwich Is- 
lands. 

6. John Conde; b. Oct. 17, 1773; m. Polly Brown; 6 

children. 

7. WiLMOT Conde; b. 1776; m. Simon Toll, bro. of Hester 

8. Jesse Conde; b. 1778; d. 1787. 

9. Susannah Conde; b. 1780; m. Henry Cuyler; several 

children. 

ID. Nicholas De Graaf Conde; b. 1783; m. Ann De Wand- 
ler ; 8 children. 

II. Isaac Switz Conde; b. 1785; m. Mary Bradford; 6 chil- 
dren. 



CONDE FAMILY RECORD. 59 

12. Jesse Conde; b. 1791 ; m. Mary Duell; 10 children, of 
whom were Eveline E. Conde; b. 182 — ; m. John 
Brown, of Scotland, and her bro. Henry Clay Conde ; 
b. 1832, Apr. 16; m. ist, Marietta Farrell ; 2d, Cather- 
ine Porter. Children : 
Henry Clay Conde. 



fourtb (5eneratton. 



The children of Lieut. Benjamin Ogden and Rachel Wester- 
velt: 



1. Dorothea Ogden; b. Sept. 20, 1759; d. young. 

2. Rachel Ogden ; b. Jan. 20, 1761 ; d. Mar. 23, 1850. 

3. Benjamin Ogden; b. Feb. 21, 1765; d. Sept. 4, 1835. 

4. Albert Ogden; b. Jan. 20, 1769; d. Feb. 2, 1865. 

5. Andrew Ogden; b. Oct. 16, 1772; d. Nov. 5, 1819. 

All were bom in New York. 



II. Rachel Ogden ; b. Jan. 20, 1761 ; d. Mar. 2t„ 1850; only 
daughter of Benjamin Ogden and Rachel Westervelt; married 
George Wetmore; b. July 31, 1751 ; d. Nov. 2, 1800; son of Jere- 
miah Wetmore and Hannah Hobbs. They were married by the 
Rev. Samuel Seabury, rector of the parishes of East and West 
Chester, afterwards Bishop of Rhode Island and Connecticut. 
The date in "New York Marriages," is Sept. 11, 1777. They 
were said to be the handsomest couple that walked on Queen 
Street,, now Pearl street, the Fifth Avenue of those times. George 
Wetmore was born in Middletown, Conn., and educated there. 



GEORGE WETMORE. 6i 

In the Wetmore memorial we find this sketch of him : "At an 
early age he embarked in the West India trade, by which he 
amassed considerable property. He continued in that trade until 
the commencement of the Revolutionary War. Remaining loyal 
to the crown, he enlisted a company of 48 men at his own expense, 
called the 'Independent Volunteers,' attaching his company to 
Brig. Gen. Browne's brigade. From General Brown he received 
his first commission of lieutenant January i, 1777, and afterwards 
that of captain in the 2d batallion, March 25th, 1777. He served 
his Sovereign until 1783, when the regiment was disbanded. He 
then took up lands at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he resided 
many years, after which he returned to the United States. Their 
first child, Rachel, was born in New York, and baptized in Trinity 
Church. The record is : 



"Rachel, dau. of George and Rachel Wetmore ; b. Nov., 1778. Spon- 
sors — Charles Babbington, Rachel Wetmore, Elizabeth Budd." 



In Halifax is recorded the original grant from King George 
Third, to Lieut. Col. Timothy Hierlihy, and 88 others, containing 
21,600 acres, with allowances for town and common. Timothy's 
share, 1,600 acres; George Wetmore's, 800 acres. Date, Novem- 
ber 5, 1784. J. Parr, Esq., our Capt. General and Governor. 

Col. Timothy Hierlihy was from Middletown, Conn., and 



62 FAMILY HISTORY. 

commanded an independent company at Halifax, N. S. They 
received land at Antigonish, N. S. 

From Mrs. Lovell's narrative we quote : "Peace was made in 
1783, and the Independance of the United States acknowledged. 
Immediately upon this, George and Rachel Wetmore removed 
from New York to Halifax, where their eldest son was born, May 

1783- 

In common with other British officers who went to Nova 
Scotia, Capt. Wetmore was allowed lands which were located at 
Antigonish, Sidney County, N. S. They resided about ten years 
in Nova Scotia, and then went to live at Wetmore's Island, on the 
Penobscot — ((1793 or '94) — river, opposite Bucksport, where 
Harriet and Charlotte were born. While there the two eldest sons, 
George and Alexander, were sent to college at Middletown, Conn., 
where their father's family lived. 

"Wetmore's Island belonged to Judge Wetmore, the brother 
of our grandfather. The fisheries there were quite important, and 
the fish caught, and the butter and cheese made on the island, 
were sent to Boston in small fishing vessels. They were not satis- 
fied to remain there because they had no advantages of education 
for the children, and my grandmother wished to be near New York 
on account of her mother, and for greater advantages for the chil- 
dren; consequently they left the Island for New York about 1798. 
On their arrival in New York the yellow fever prevailed there, 



THE PURCHASE IN TROY, N, J. 63 

and they were persuaded by friends to go to Troy, N. Y. — (New 
Jersey) — until it abated. Mary Ann was born there, April 27, 
1799; 5 o'clock Saturday morning." 

From "Wetmore Memorial'' we learn that the Island belonged 
to Judge William Wetmore, of Boston, a brother of Capt. George 
Wetmore, and was part of a grant from the English government 
to Gen, Waldo, his wife's father, and received its name in compli- 
ment to Judge Wetmore who resided there sometime. On their 
way to Troy, George and Rachel went up the Passaic River to 
Second River (now Belleville). This was a Dutch settlement, 
and as early as 1682 had a considerable population. It might have 
been the home of Rachel Westervelt once. 

From Second River they went to Troy, where they pur- 
chased nine or ten acres of land in December, 1798, according to 
the Morris County record. In the deed he is described as George 
Whitmore, of Second River, in the County of Essex and State of 
New Jersey. This land formerly belonged to John Dixon, father 
of Mary Dixon, who married Rachel's brother, Andrew Ogden. 
It may have been an old home of the Dixon family, for John 
Dixon and Mary Williams were married there by the celebrated 
Parson Green, in 1768, December 26. These facts illustrate pret- 
ty clearly the influence which drew George and Rachel to Troy, 
and Albert to Morristown. 

This Troy property was in a lovely and healthful spot of rich 



64 FAMILY HISTORY. 

farming land, and they were among an intelligent and hospit- 
able people, but their stay there was cut short two years later by 
the death of Capt. Wetmore, November 2, 1800. 

Rachel, then about 40 years old, was left with a family of 
ten children to provide for. But she had a stout heart and a re- 
sourceful head, and well she met the emergency. She had a 
small store, which she soon removed to Morristown, and took the 
place of her brother, Albert, who had just removed his business to 
205 Broadway, New York. 

We find in the records that Rachel Wetmore, administratrix 
of George Wetmore, late of Hanover, (Troy is in Hanover town- 
ship), deceased, sold the nine acres at Troy to Jonathan Tomp- 
kins, February 28, 1803. She had removed to Morristown before 
that time, where she is found living in 1801, as appears by an 
advertisement in the "Genius of Liberty," newspaper of Morris- 
town, under date of October 8, 1801, "Having removed her store 
from Troy to the house lately occupied by Mr. Albert Ogden, (her 
brother), in Morristown." 

"Her Troy accounts have been left with John Cobb, Esq., 
(Judge of Court of Common Pleas), for collection." 

Mr. Ogden's store was corner of South Street and Morris- 
tovi^n Green, (where Smith's drug store is now, "1905"). He 
owned that corner, having bought it in 1799. Two months later 



IN MORRISTOWN. 65 

she makes an effort to be relieved of belongings probably brought 
from Troy, which are not needed in her Morristown home. 

VENDUE. 

Rachel Wetmore advertises a vendue on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at her 
store on south side of Morris Green, a variety of articles, consisting of 
drygoods, glass, china, crockery, earthenware, hollow-ware, etc. Also 5 
sets harness, i sleigh and harness, i plough, i large spinning wheel, etc. 
Also I cutting box and other articles, too numerous to mention. Dated, 
Dec. II, 1801.— (G. of L.) 

On August 19, 1803, she advertises addition to her stock of 
dry goods, groceries, china and glassware. 

On December 19 of this year her daughter Rachel, being 25 
years of age, marries Mr. Israel Canfield, of Morristown. Mrs. 
Lovell describes her as "quite a beauty and a belle, and a great 
favorite, and was constantly invited about to stay with families in 
the country." Mr. Canfield was "a man of energy, wealth and sta- 
tion, a leader in every public enterprise and, at that time, engaged 
in the mining and manufacture of iron in a large way." 

The next year, 1804, Mrs. Wetmore removes her store to the 
new house opposite Mr. John Diron's, which belonged to her 
brother, Andrew Ogden. It is called the "Yellow House." She 
advertises dry goods, groveries, drugs and medicines for sale. 

The next year R. Wetmore announces that she takes her son, 
George C. Wetmore into partnership, August 27, 1805. R. Wet- 



66 FAMILY HISTORY. 

more & Son. Her son George was then about 22 years of age. 
On July 30, 1806, the partnership was dissolved and Mrs. Wet- 
more continues the business. In the fall, October 30, 1806, she 
advertises fresh goods at her store; also in 1809 and 1810, dry 
goods, etc., and in June, 181 1, "straw bonnets and plumes," The 
last announcement in the "Genius of Liberty" is on January 7, 
1814: "Garden Seeds. R. Wetmore." 

About seven years before this time she had ventured upon 
0. school for young ladies, in addition to her other business. Her 
brother Albert sent his two daughters to her care. Margaret 
Ann, the younger, was about four or five years old, and she re- 
mained under her aunt's care for about ten years. Elizabeth, three 
years older, was also there most of that time. Albert Ogden 
wished his daughters to have every advantage of education and 
accomplishment as they were growing up, and their Aunt Wet- 
more continually endeavored to provide the best instruction pos- 
sible in her school. Her own children were educated to take part 
in teaching. Sophia (Mrs. Lovell), taught drawing and painting 
and, judging by some beautiful work by Elizabeth, (Albert Og- 
den's daughter), still preserved, she must have had excellent 
instruction. 

Mrs. Wetmore's son, Thomas, taught penmanship. He was 
lame. Her daughter, Harriet, (Mrs. Colles), taught mathematics, 
and was considered a fine teacher of her specialty. Another 



MRS. WETMORE'S SCHOOL. 67 

taught bead and shell work, embroidery and fine needlework. We 
have now in our possession a pin cushion made of white velvet, 
beautifully painted with flowers on the upper side, and on the 
under side, of white silk, is inscribed the name with some pen 
ornamentation. It was given to Albert Ogden's daughter, Mar- 
garet Ann, as a reward for sitting erect on the edge of her chair 
(as was the fashion in those days) for one year. Later, Mary 
Ann (Mrs. Hay ward) taught music. Mrs. Wetmore's school 
was begun in 1808 and carried on until 1818. The "Genius of Lib- 
erty" makes this announcement : 

LADIES' SCHOOL. 

The inhabitants of Morristown, and the public in general, are respect- 
fully informed that the subscriber, having employed a lady from the city of 
New York, who is well acquainted with embroidery and the various other 
branches of needlework, painting, etc., proposes to open a school for young 
ladies in the above branches, on Monday the twenty-third of May, 1808, at 
the dwelling house now occupied by Maj. Daniel Phoenix Junr, where 
reading, writing, geography and English grammar will be taught, if 
required. April 28, 1808. RACHEL WETMORE. 

She can accommodate six young ladies as boarders at her own house 
on reasonable terms. 

The "lady from the city of New York" was Miss Esther 
Scribner who, with her sister, Elizabeth, opened a school the next 
year, as appears by the following : 

YOUNG LADIES' SCHOOL. 
Esther and Elizabeth Scribner inform the public that they will open 



68 FAMILY HISTORY. 

a school on ist May, at Mrs. Wetmore's, Morristown (at which place 
Esther taught last year) where will be taught orthography, reading, writ- 
ing, geography and history, embroidery and other needlework in all its 
branches — filligree print-worrk, drawing and painting, French and music, 
as required. Young ladies of all ages are admitted, abecedarians excepted. 
Strict attention will be paid to the morals and manners of the young ladies 
who are placed under their care. Prices of tuition will vary according to 
the branches taught. March 25, 1809. 

N. B. — Mrs. Wetmore has accommodation for six young ladies in 
the same house with their instructresses. 



The Misses Scribner the following fall, with their mother 
and another sister, take another house and have a separate school. 
Mrs. Wetmore continues at Maj. Phoenix's house. In the "Genius 
of Liberty" : 



C. J. Wetmore informs the ladies and gentlemen of Morristown and 
vicinity, that he intends remaining in Morristown for a few weeks, during 
which time he will attend at the house of Mrs. R. Wetmore for the pur- 
pose of taking miniatures and profiles. Nov. 18, 181 1. 



This was Charles Jeremiah Wetmore, the son of Mrs. Rachel 
Wetmore, and father of Mrs. Hester Vanarsdale. 

Another advertisement shows that a change is decided upon : 



"Possession ist May — Pleasant house with well planted garden, cor. 
Washington St., and Court St., at present occupied by Mrs. Wetmore. 
April 26, 1813." 



ANXIOUS DAYS. 69 

Early in 18 14 Mrs. Wetmore contemplated a union of the two 
schools, and made an arrangement with the Scribners, or supposed 
she had, as evidenced by the following: 

A CARD. 

Prompted by feelings of grateful respect for the inhabitants of Mor- 
ristown, E. & E. Scribner would desire to render to them their sincere 
thanks for their uniform attention and politeness during their residence in 
town. They cannot, without feeling of deep regret, leave so eligible a situ- 
ation, yet they feel highly gratified that they leave their school under the 
management of Mrs. Wetmore and Miss Sarah Scribner, persons in whom 
they have perfect confidence. March, 1814. 

A very anxious letter, dated April 17, 1814, from Mrs. Wet- 
more to her brother, Albert Ogden, in New York, shows her 
solicitude to conclude the arrangement with the Scribners, and 
that the obstacles and delay were upon their side. (We quote in 
part) : 

"Dear Brother : — I wrote you some days ago, since which I have not 
made any arrangements with the Misses Scribner, as they wished to have 
it put off until their brother should arrive, but it is so uncertain about his 
being here in season for me that it places me under great embarrassments. 
I have not done anything to the garden, which I am not sure will be mine, 
and the time is now so short in which I have pledged myself to be ready 
for the reception of boarders, that I am in the greatest anxiety about the 
business. I have a prospect of having a full house, and most of them by 
the first of May. I must, therefore, have it settled in some way, if pos- 
sible, in four or five days, or a week at most. I have thought if brother 



70 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Benjamin would take the trouble that it would be most proper for him, his 
not being so near a neighbor and acquaintance, he could propose a settle- 
ment witht greater freedom, which I know you feel delicate about urging. 
I hope, dear brother, you will not fail me in this business, as it is the only 
prospect left me of doing my duty to you and others. It is my last effort, 
I think, but if God blesses me with health, I expect to do well. Pray write 
me as soon as you can for I am uncertain if you have received a letter I 
wrote you some time since. With love to all, I am 

"Affectionately yours, 

"RACHEL WETMORE." 
"Harriet will write to Sophia." 



Sophia superintended her uncle Albert's household about this 
time in New York. The plan of union failed. The Scribners went 
to Indiana about 1814, and their school passed into other hands. 
The following appears in the Morristown paper : 

BOARDING SCHOOL. 

"Mrs. Wetmore respectfully informs her friends and the public that, 
having been disappointed in her purpose of commencing a school in con- 
cert with Miss Sarah Scribner, she has opened a school for the instruction 
of young ladies, to be kept at her own house until the first day of June 
when it will be removed to the large and commodious building now occupied 
by the Rev. Samuel Fisher. 

"Competent teachers are provided in the several branches of educa- 
tion, which have been taught in the ladies' school formerly kept in this 
town, and a married gentleman of approved talents and character is en- 
gaged to give lessons in writing and arithmetic. 

"Mrs. Wetmore hopes, by her exertions, to improve the minds of the 
young ladies committed to her charge, and also by strict attention to their 



MRS. WETMORE IN BALTIMORE. 71 

manners and morals to deserve the approbation and patronage of the 
public. May 4, 1814." 



The house then occupied by Rev. Samuel Fisher, then about 
leaving the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, (he was 
afterwards president of Hamilton College, New York), was owned 
by Rev. James Richards, D. D., pastor of the old church, 1799- 
1809. This property was in recent years bought by the Church 
of the Redeemer, and is now occupied by them. 

Mrs, Wetmore established her school there as contemplated : 



"Mrs. Wetmore informs her friends and the public, that her school 
vacation will expire on the first of November ensuing, at which time the 
school will recommence under the same regulations as formerly. A few 
young ladies will be received as day scholars in any of the branches taught 
at her school. Examinations for the present term will be on Monday, the 
17th inst, at 10 A. M., and the musical examinations at 7 o'clock in the 
evening of the same day." 



About three years later Mrs. Wetmore went from Morris- 
town to Baltimore, Md., and established there a large and success- 
ful school, under the auspices of the Bishop of Maryland.. In 
1817-18, she lived at the corner of Hanover and Pratt streets (then 
a fashionable locality). In 1819-22-23, it was called, "Young 
Ladies' Academy," and was located at 11 South Charles Street. 
Only wealthy pupils were admitted to her school; the best of 



72 FAMILY HISTORY. 

references were asked for, and the young ladies were given a first- 
class education in all branches, including French, music, dancing, 
and all the accomplishments. Her daughter, Harriet Augusta, 
was married August 4, 182 1, to Mr. James Colles, of New Or- 
leans. They were married by Bishop Kemp at St. Paul's Church. 
They went to New Orleans, where they lived for several years. 

According to Mrs. Lovell's narrative, Mrs. Wetmore returned 
from Baltimore about the time of her mother's death, which oc- 
curred in 1829. She does not again resume active business, but 
rests on her well-earned honors, among her children, in her old 
home of Morristown, N. J." 

In 1843 she acknowledges a letter from her brother, Albert 
Ogden, through her son-in-law, Mr. Joseph Lovell, who married 
her daughter, Sophia, in New Orleans, in 1825. Mr. Lovell 
writes : 



"Mother received your kind letter on your return from the West, and 
as she no longer writes letters, from weakness of eyes and other infirm- 
ities, my wife has been trying to get time to write to you. 

"I have been confined to the house about a week by a bad cold and, 
finding a leisure moment, undertake to reply for her. We are very much 
obliged to you for your kind enquiries in relation to Mrs. Lovell's health. 
She suffered last summer for about two months, very severely indeed, 
from an attack partly bilious and partly dyspeptic. She was relieved, how- 
ever, finally, simply by the use of Hickorv lye, diluted in water, after eat- 
ing. Her health is now better than formerly. My own general health is 
also much improved by the same remedy, although I am still suffering much 



RACHEL WETMORE. 73 

from a bad cold. Mary has returned again to St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, 
for the winter, and is in very good health. Our friends here generally are 
well. Mrs. Wetmore is as usual, although her infirmities are increasing — 
such as loss of memory, increased deafness, &c. Aunt Ogden continues 
about as usual — always a good deal complaining. 

"We have letters from Mr. Colles' family, from Paris, where they 
had returned to spend the winter. We calculate on their return in July 
next. They were all well at St. Louis, by last letters, although Mr. Hay- 
ward is still out of employ or business of any kind. They were enabled to 
keep George at Kemper College another year. Sophia and Mrs. Wetmore 
unite with me in expressions of love to yourself and daughters, and hope 
we shall have the pleasure of hearing from you frequently during the 
winter. Very truly, 

"Your friend and humble servant, 

"JOSEPH LOVELL." 



]Mrs. Wetmore drew a pension from the British Govern- 
ment for a number of years. Henry A. Ford, Esq., of Morristown, 
used to attend to it for her. The Government, by an order in 
Council, afterwards suspended the payment of pensions to pen- 
sioners not Hving in the British Provinces, and from then she 
ceased to receive it. 

The following is a copy of entries in a small notebook, made 
in Rachel Wetmore's handwriting: 



'George Wetmore was bom at Middletown, Connecticut, the 31st 



74 FAMILY HISTORY. 

July, 1751, 4 o'clock in the morning. Rachel, his wife, was born at New 
York the 20th January, 1761. 

"Rachel Wetmore was born at New York the ist November, 1778, 
Monday noon, i o'clock. 

"George C. Wetmore was born at Halifax, the nth May, 1783, Sun- 
day morning, 11 o'clock. 

"Alexander Ogden Wetmore was born at Middletown, Connecticut, 
the 14th April, 1785, Saturday, 4 o'clock A. M. 

"William Henry Wetmore was born at Antigonish, the i6th Decem- 
ber, 1786, Saturday, 4 o'clock A. M. 

"Sophia Maria Wetmore was born at Antigonish, the 12th February, 
1789, of a Wednesday morning, 7 o'clock. 

"Charles Jeremiah Wetmore was born at Antigonish, the 21st April, 
1791, Thursday morning, 7 o'clock. 

"Thomas George Wetmore was born at Dorchester, the 12th June, 

1793- 

"Harriet, Monday, February 7, 1795, at Penobscot. 

"Cornelia Charlotte, 23 July, 1797, of a Sunday. 

"Mary Ann, on April 27, 1799, 5 o'clock, Saturday morning. 

"My dear and ever honored husband departed this life November 2d, 
1800, after an illness of one year except six days. 

"My gentle, kind and beloved son, Alexander Ogden, departed this 
life the 13th August, 1826. Died of a bilious fever at Pecan Point, Red 
River." 

From Mrs. Radford : 

"The date of Uncle George's death is not entered. George and Alex- 
ander married sisters, and settled in Arkansas. Alexander left no children. 
George left two children. I have heard that for some years after George's 
death his mother would not believe that he was dead. He died soon after 
Alexander, and my father and mother, (Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lovell), pro- 
posed taking his children to educate them, but the mother would not give 



GEORGE AND RACHEL WETMORE. 75 

them up. After this offer was declined there does not seem to have been 
any further correspondence between his widow and any members of the 
family. The widow soon after married again." 

"My beloved and much afflicted son, Thomas George, departed this 
life February i6th, 1830, 5 o'clock P. M., after an illness of 17 years." Is 
the first adult inter'd. in the burying ground of the Episcopal Church, in 
Morristown, N. J. 

"Charles Jeremiah Wetmore died in Morristown, June 2d, 1837, aged 
46 years." 

Beneath this, in Mrs. Lovell's handwriting, we find : 



"My dear mother died on the 23d of March, 1850, at eleven o'clock in 
the evening." 



On another page, in Rachel Wetmore's handwriting, we find 



"Josiah Wetmore died October 12, 1778, at Yz past 12 P. M. In Hali- 
fax, was buried the 13th, at 5 o'clock P. M." 



(Mr. Josiah Wetmore Hved in St. George, N. B. His family 
was very intimate with our own. — A. V.) 

There is a monument in St. Peter's church-yard, Morristown, 
N. J., to the memory of George and Rachel Wetmore. 



DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE AND RACHEL (OGDEN) WETMORE. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

Rachel Ogden, b. June 20, 1761, d. Mar. 23, 1850,111. by Bishop Seabury, Sept. 11, 1777, to George Wetmore, b. July 
31, 1751, d. Nov. 2, 1800. He was son of Jeremiah Wetmore and Hannah Hobbs. 

He was born Middletown, Conn. 
6th Generation. 7th Generation, 8th Generation. 



5th Generation. 



/Alfred Washington Canfield, 
m. Charlotte C. Johnes, dau. 
William Johnes. 



Rachel Ogden Wetmore, b. 
1778, Nov. i; d. 1850, Nov. 
3; m. Israel Canfield, b. i7S9>\ 
July 3; d- 1841, Aug. 27. 



/Joseph Canfield, b. 1833, Aug. 
' 6; m. Gulielma Jefferson. 



George Wetmore Canfield, m. 

1 Rebecca Reckless. 

2 Margaret Smith Lawrie. 



Cornelia Laura Canfield, b. ( George C. Woodward, d. 1887, 
1835, Dec. 30; m. Major E. M.K Nov. 4. 
Woodward. ( Rev. Reginald H. Woodward. 

George Wetmore Canfield, 
V b. 1839, Sept. 6; unm. 



/ Cornelia Laura Canfield, 
William Cummings Canfield! 1832. 

m. Elizabeth Cummings. Sophia Lovell Canfield, 

[ 1833, Mar. 26. 



b. 
b. 



Israel Canfield, s. 
Ogden 



Benjamin Ogden Canfield, ( John Dodd Canfield, b. 184s, 
1810-1884, m. Louisa (Dodd)-< April 19; grad. Williams 
k Pitt, dau. of Gen. John Dodd. | 1866, A.M. 



2 Geo. Curgeven Wetmore, 

1780-1828: 2 children. 

3 Alex. Ogden Wetmore, 1785- 

1826; d. at Pecon Point: 2 
children. (Mrs. Radford.) 



4 William Henry Wetmore, 
1786-1873, m. Jane M. Ross. 



James Wood Wetmore. 



Mary Emily Wetmore m. 
Thomas B. Flagler, M. D. 



/Elizabeth Burtis Flagler. 
William Wetmore Flagler. 
Thomas Burtis Flagler. 
Jane Wetmore Flagler. 
Mary Emily Flagler. 
Frances Revere Flagler m. 

Wm. Wallace Kellett. 
Adele Flagler m. George Carr 

Hastings. 



DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE AND RACHEL (OGDEN) WETMORE. 



5th Generation. 



6th Generation. 



5 Sophia Maria Wetmore, 1789- (Mary Elizabeth Lovell, 1829, 



1879, m. Joseph Lovell, 1795 
1875, son of Thomas Lovell, 
of N. J. 



7th Generation. 

Mary Lovell Radford, b. 1849, 
Aug. 25, m. Randolph Coyle, 
Asst. District Attorney of 
Washington, D. C. 



8th Generation. 

Alice Kearny Coyle. 
William Radford Coyle m. 

Jane Dodson. 
Edith Lovell Coyle. 
Eleanor Coyle. 
Randolph Coyle. 



April 2, m. 1848, Nov. 21,/ 
William Radford, rear admiral, \ 
U. S. N. He d. 1890, Jan. 8. 



William Radford, d. y. 
Lovell Radford, d. y. 

Sophia Adelaide Radford, b. 

1854,, Nov. I7J m. Waldemar , Alexander de Meissner d. Sept. 



de Meissner, Sec. of the Rus 
sian Legation. He d. 1896 at 
Lisbon, Portugal. 



Stephen Kearney Radford 
1856; m. Nellie Armstrong 



^1 



1901, at Tifliss, Transcaucasus. 



Robert Armstrong Radford. 
Mary Lovell Radford. 
Sophia Adelaide Radford. 



George Reginald Radford, d. 

1896, at Boston; m. Elizabeth 

Upham. 
Edward Ironsides Radford, d. 

aged 16 years. 
Henry Carlton Radford, d. 

aged 27 years. 



/George Wetmore (1828-1835). 



6 Charles Jeremiah Wetmore 
(1791-1837), m. Augusta 
Wetmore, b. 1791-1846, dau. 
of Judge William Wetmore' 
and Sally Waldo. 



Charles Wetmore (1831-1876), 
m. 1852, Oct. 17, Mary Lud- 
low of N. Y. City. 



Hester Anne Wetmore (1826- 
1895), m. Henry Van Arsdale, 
M. D., of Newark, b. 1819- \ 
d. 1864. 



'Augusta Ludlow Wetmore. 

T., iir TT T *• /Mary Alison Janeway. 

Mary Wetmore m. Henry Lati- / j.^^jj^^j^g ^beel Janeway. 

mer Janeway of New Bruns- <, Hj^^en Rodney Janeway. 

^^'^'^- [ Henry Latimer Janeway. 

Charles Ludlow Wetmore, 
1862, Oct. 12. 

Henry Van Arsdale, b. 1851, /Hester Anne Van Arsdale, 
Dec. 26; m. 1886, July 28, 1887, May 20. 
Alice Maud White, dau. of/ Henry Van Arsdale, 1889, 
Whitman White, M. D., of\ Feb. i. 

N. Y., surgeon of Mass. Vol- I Alice Maud Van Arsdale, 1893, 
unteers. > Jan. 12. 



William Waldo Van Arsdale, 
V b. 1855, Nov. 17. 



7 Thomas George Wetmore, d. 
Feb. 16, 1830, in S7th year. 



5th Generation. 



6th Generation. 



7th Generation. 

/James Colles Metcalfe, 1846, 
d. y. 
Frances Augusta Metcalfe 
(1863-1863). 

Henry Metcalfe, b. 1847, Oct. r 
29; m. Harriet Pauline, dau. / 



8th Generation. 



'Harriet Augusta Colles (1822, 
Aug. 28 — 1863, April 20), m. 
184s, Aug. 4, Dr. John 
Thomas Metcalfe, b. 18 18, eld- 
est son of Dr. James Metcalfe 
of Natchez, Miss. 



8 Harriet Augusta Wetmore 
(1795-1868), m. 1821, Aug. 4, 
at Baltimore, James Colles 
(1788-1883). 



of John H. 
nosha, Wis. 



Nichols of Ke- J^lia Metcalfe. 



Mary Gertrude Metcalfe, b. 

1849, Mar. 15; d. 1896, Feb. 

23; m. Loyal Farrag^t, son of 

David G. Farragut, admiral, 

U. S. N. 
Edith Caroline Metcalfe, b. 

1854, Aug. 24; d. 1868, April 

24. 



Francis Johnston Metcalfe, b. 
1850, June 29; d. 1892, Feb. 
7; m. Helene Rocheat. 



Emilie Montrose Metcalfe, 
b. i860, Oct. 19; d. 1867, May 
22. 



^Louis Rocheat Metcalfe, b. in 
N. Y. city, 1874, Jan. 17; grad. 
Yale 1895; Architect. Ecole 
des Beaux Arts. 
Marie Florence Metcalfe, b. 
1875 at Stamford, Conn.; m. 
Rene Chausaret; living in 
Paris. 
Susan Scott Metcalfe, b. 1877, 
Nov. 16, in Florence. (A 
singer.) 
Helene Frances Metcalfe, b. 
( 1880, May 14, in Florence. 
* (A painter.) 



/ 



Frances Colles b. 1826, April 
29; d. 1888, July 20; m. 1850, 
May 15, John Taylor Johnston, 
eldest son of John Johnston of 
New York. His picture gal- 
lery was the most important in 
America at the time of its sale 
in 1877. He was one of the 
original promoters of the Met- 
ropolitan Museum, New York, 
and its first president. He 
gave largely to charities, etc. 



Emily Johnston, b. 1851, Feb. 
13; m. 1872, Nov. 12, Robert 
W. de Forest, b. 1848. 



Colles JonNSTON, b. 1853, Mar. 
14; d. 1886, Sep. II. 

Frances Johnston, m. Pierre 
Mali. 



/Johnson de Forest, b. 1873, 
Sep. 5; grad. Yale 1896; m. 
1904, Oct. 6, Nathalie Coffin. 

Henry Lockwood de Forest, b. 
1875, Aug. 6; grad. Yale 1897; 
m. 1899, Aug. 24, Amy Bright- 
hurst Brown. 

Ethel de Forest, b. 1877, Mar. 
IS- 

Frances Emily de Forest, b. 
1878, Dec. 24; m. 1900, May 
I, VVilliam Adams Walker 
Stewart. 



f John Taylor Johnston Mali, 
J b. 1893, Mar. 27. 
I Gertrude Mali, b. 1894, Apr. 22. 
I Eva Mali, b. 1890, Dec. 5. 



John Herbert Johnston, b. 1 

1855. Feb. 22; m. 1892, MayK Emilie Noel Johnston. 
23, Celestine Noel. | 

Emilie Coe, b. 1889, Nov. 21. 
Rosalie Coe, b. 1891, Sep. 26. 



Eva Johnston, m. Henry E. Colles Johnston Coe, b. 



James Colles, b. 1828, July 10; 
m. 1855. Oct. 18, Mary Jose- 
phine Blachley. 



John Henry Colles, 1831-1871. 
George Wetmore Colles, 1834- 
1836. 



Coe. 



Elizabeth Colles. 
Christopher John Colles, M. 

D., m. Emily Keene Elmen- 

dorf. 
Oliver Spencer Colles. 
Mary Adele Colles. 
Henrietta Josephine Colles. 



Mar. 28. 
Henry Eugene Coe, 
Oct. 2. 



1893. 
1894. 



George WET^^0RE Colles, b. f Gertrude Colles. 

1836; m. Julia Keese Nelson, J George Wetmore Colles. 

dau. of John Peter Nelson of 1 Julia Nelson Colles, b. 1876, 

New Orleans. I. Aug. 3; d. 1903. 



5th Generation. 



6th Generation. 



/Francis Dayton Canfield, b. 
' 1834, Apr. 26; m. Eliza Ann 

Wurts. M. by Bishop G. W. 

Doane. 



9 Charlotte Cornelia Wet- 
more, b. 1797; d. 1873; m. ( 
I Richard Ebbetts, 1833, Jul 
16; 2 Dayton I. Canfield. 



7th Generation. 

Canfield, 



8th Generation. 



^Henry Wurts 
Kate Bronson 



m. (Ellen Canfield. 
(Anna Canfield. 



Joseph Lovell Canfield, b. 
1835, Dec. 21 ; m. 1862, June/ 
S, Eliza Hosack Ford, dau. of\ 



Frances Cornelia Canfield. 



Francis Dayton Canfield, Jr., 
m. Ella Wise of Philadelphia. 



HoBART Canfield, m. 1896, Apr. 

18, Sara Stokes. 
Anna Morris Canfield m. 

James Booth of Alleghany 

Co., Pa. 
Edmund Grandin Canfield. 
Lewis Clark Canfield. 
*^John Miller Canfield. 

yLouiSA Canfield m. Oscar Coles 
Ferris. 
Jennie Canfield. 
Edith Canfield. 



/Helen Canfield, b. 1890. 
Frances Canfield, b. 1892, 

May 3. 
/Francis Dayton Canfield, b. 

1894, Apr. 18. 



Henry A. Ford. 



fHoBART Canfield Phillips, b. 



Emily Ford Canfield m. Will- J 1898, July 17. 

iam Lambert Collyer Phillips.] Emily Lovell Phillips, 
V [ 1901, Mar. 19. 



b. 



Hobart Canfield, b. 1841, Jan. 
10; m. 1876, June 22, Emily 
\ Hosack Ford. 

/■James Collis Hayward, b. 1830 
' d. 1836. 



ID Mary Ann Wetmore, b. 
1799; d. 1874; m. at Balti- / 
more Albigence Waldo Hay- \ George A. Hayward, m. _Ellen 



ward of Boston. 



^Florence Hayward. 
Harry Erwin Hayward. 
Louis J. Hayward m. Clara, 
dau. of James Hopkins, Esq., 
of St. Louis. 



Erwin, dau. of John P. Erwin; -r. "^ '''• „ '*'■ r 

nf N=,;:liviilp -vLr. \ Frances Hayward m. George 



of Nashville, Tenn 



W. Niedringhaus of St. Louis. 
Jane Erwin Hayward m. George 
Mowatt Higinbotham of To- 
ronto, Can. 



8o FAMILY HISTORY. 

III. Benjamin Ogden; b. Feb. 21, 1765; d. Sept. 4, 1835; 
eldest son of Benjamin and Rachel (Westervelt) Ogden. In the 
British Provinces, where most of the following information was 
obtained, Benjamin, the son, as well as his father, is called 
"Captain." After many entreaties he was allowed to accompany 
his father in the campaign in South Carolina, under Tarleton, and 
he received his commission as lieutenant, in 1779. Being too 
young to carry the heavy musket of the soldiers, his father had one 
made to fit him, for none were allowed to enlist who could not 
carry a musket. His brother, Albert, who told us the story, was 
a cadet in the same company (Capt. Bridgenerter's) and in the 
same regiment with their father — the P. W. A. Regiment. Their 
father was wounded in a skirmish at the battle of Camden and 
died in his son Benjamin's arms, August ti6, 1780. 

On his return to New York, Benjamin joined Col. Timothy 
Hierlihy's Loyal American Regiment, where it was raised. It was 
an independent corps. After the war he was stationed at Prince 
Edward's Island, doing garrison duty, and with others was sent 
to Nova Scotia to look for deserters. The country so pleased them 
that they decided to take up grants there. At Halifax, in the 
Crown grant office, is recorded a grant to Col. Hierlihy and 88 
others, of 21,600 acres, with allowances for town and common, 
August 15, 1801. Benjamin's grant at Antigonish County, (form- 
erly Sydney County), was 2,480 acres, where he settled. He also 



BENJAMIN OGDEN OF ANTIGONISH. 8i 

had a grant of a lot in Carleton, in 1785, which is recorded at 
Fredericton, N. B. The first settlers of Antigonish* began the 
town, 4 or 5 miles nearer the harbor than the present site, at a 
place called Town Point, and laid out streets and built a church, 
having the services of a minister once in three months. But for 
some reason the people chose to build farther inland, and the first 
town was abandoned and the church pulled down. This was about 
the time Benjamin Ogden returned to New York. 

(*Indian name for a "river of fish"). 

He married, at Antigonish, Cornelia Hierlihy, the daughter 
of the colonel of his regiment. A sketch of Col. Timothy Hierlihy 
appeared in "The Telegram," a newspaper of St. Johns, New- 
foundland, from which we quote the following : 



"He was the descendant of a very old Irish family — the O'Hierlihy, 
from Eagan More, King of Munster. He had served in the British Army, 
both in Europe and America, and retired and settled at Middletown, Conn. 
Upon the breaking out of the war, he resumed his sword and was com- 
missioned to raise the Loyal American Regiment. His son, Timothy C. 
Hierlihy, was a captain in the same regiment. An old "warrant of survey 
for 3,000 acres of land, near the Mississippi, for Maj. Timothy O'Hierlihy, 
dated March 5, 1774, in the Province of West Florida," is recorded at the 
crown grant office. It is probably the land referred to by Andrew Ogden 
in his letter to his brother Benjamin, written June, 1796, in which he 
advises him to go to New York. "I wonder, Benjamin, if you are still so 



82 FAMILY HISTORY. 

much attached to the Garden of Eden that I could not persuade you; New 
York would be a more elegible situation for a man of your ability. 

"You have been waiting with sanguine expectation lo years to see the 
walls of Dorchester rise, but I imagine have witnessed the reverse. On 
many subjects I would not venture to advise a brother so much my superior 
in judgment, and in this, w'ill only observe, that I think lo years of the 
most active part of a man's life is too great a sacrifice to so little purpose 
and advise you to leave a place where the greatest exertions will not afford 
a decent living. 

"I wish you to think seriously of the matter and write me on the 
subject soon; indeed I can't reconcile the idea of your continuing in such 
obscurity any longer than you can conveniently make arrangements to 
leave it. My amiable sister-in-law, I fear, will not feel herself much 
obliged by my advice, as it would tend to deprive her of the society of near 
friends in Dorchester, but when she reflects 'tis the interest and happiness 
of a brother inseparably connected with her, I wish to promote, she will 
not accuse me with officiousness." 

"Colonel Hierlihy's property on the Mississippi, in consequence of the 
treaty lately concluded between the U. S. and Spain, will, from informa- 
tion I have, likely be valuable. The United States boundary being as low 
on the river as the 31st degree of north latitude will, it is thought, include 
the colonel's land." 



Dorchester, above referred to, may have been the name given 
to a part of Antigonish by tlie first settlers. Mrs. George Wet- 
more, in her note booic, makes this mention of it : "Tho. George 
Wetmore was born at Dorchester, the 12th of June, 1793." We 
know that Benjamin Hved at Antigonish. Benjamin returned 
to New York while his children were very young, that they 
might have better advantages than Antigonish afforded. They 



OGDEN BROTHERS. 83 

were baptized in New York, and his wife died there, aged 26 

years; buried from St. Paul's Church, October 11, 1802, as we 

find in Trinity Church records. New York. 

The children of Benjamin and Cornelia (Hierlihy) Ogden 
were: 

Fifth Generation. 

1. Eliza Rachel; b. Oct. 1797; d. Jan., 1863. 

2. Cornelia Ann; b. Dec. 6, 1799; d. Sept., 1875. 

3. Augustus Albert ; b. June 4, 1801 ; d., 1875. 

4. Andrew; d. in infancy. All born in Antigonish. 

Benjamin became a prominent and wealthy merchant in New 
York, of the firm of Ogden Bros., 96 William Street, where he 
remained some years, spending the winter in Savannah, Ga. His 
children were cared for by their devoted aunt, Margaret Hierlihy, 
When about 20 years old, Augustus, his son, showed signs of con- 
sumption, and he was advised to take him on a farm where he 
could have out-door life. Benjamin immediately gave up his 
business in New York and returned to Antigonish with his chil- 
dren, where Augustus recovered his health. 

The Ogden property was in Morristown, which name was 
given to a part of Antigonish County, beautifully situated betwteen 
the Antigonish Mountains and St. George's Bay. 

In March, 1834, Rachel Canfield writes to her uncle, Albert: 
"We hear nothing from Uncle Benjamin's family. My conscience 
smites me whenever I think of them and that I have not written to 



84 



FAMILY HISTORY. 



them. Eliza has a large family around dher. She is one of the 
best of women, and I pray that her children may be a comfort to 
her. Mr. Wetmore appears to be doing well ; he is a worthy man, 
and, I think, makes E. a good husband." 

Benjamin Ogden died at Antigonish, September 4, 1835, aged 
70 years. His will, dated September 3, 1835, leaves all his proper- 
ty to his son, Augustus Albert, and his son-in-law, Mr. Thomas 
H. Whittemore. 

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6th Generation. 

/^Margaret Eliza Whitte- 
more m. John Ross. Their 
children live in Truro, N. 
S., where we were enter- 
tained in their pleasant, 
hospitable home. 

Thomas Whittemore, d. 

Cornelia Anna Whitte- ( 

MORE m. Sanford Weston-; John Hoyt. 
Hoyt. I 



7th Generation. 



John Ross. 

Elizabeth Laurence Ross. 
Mary Lillah Ross. 
Margaret Eliza Ross. 



8th Generation. 



l.ouisE Maria Whittemore 
m. Rev. Henry Spike, who 
was ordained in 1850 and 
^ gave nearly 50 years of the 
most faithful and devoted 
service to the diocese of 
Fredericton, N. S. He 
was born in Halifax, 1821, 
Feb. 15. 



Elizabeth Whittemore m. 
I St Dr. Pope, 2d Daniel 
Drew; no ch. 



Frances Louisa Spike rr 
Joshua Knight, son of Jus- { 
tice E. Knight. 

Charles Henry Spike. 

William Spike m. Amanda! 
Clayton, dau. of William. | 

Charlotte Whittemore 
Spike. 

Harriet Elizabeth Spike. 

Eliza Rachell Spike ra.j 
Theodore Alexander Dare. ) 

Thomas Howland Spike. 



Ernest L. Knight. 
Charles Seymour Knight. 
Henry Whittemore Knight 
Louisa Webster Ki ight. 
Ruth Caroline Knight. 
Jessie Margerite Knight. 

Eugene Whittemore Spike. 
Louisa Spike. 



Frances Dare. 



Frank Whittemore m. 
len Wood. 



El- 



] Harr 



\ 



Charlotte Ebbets Whitte- 
more m. 1827, July 24, 
Alexander Grand Findlay. 



Y Wood Whittemore. 



Eliza K. Findlay. 
Robert Findlay. 
Alexander Grant Findlay. 
Charlotte Ebbetts Findlay. 
Thomas Henry F'indlay. 



IN SHELBURNE. 85 

2. Cornelia Ann Ogden ; b. 1799, Dec. 6; second dau. of 
Benjamin Ogden; m. Nov. 2, 1831, the Rev. Thomas 
Howland White, D. D. ; b. Mar. 22, 1806; son of Cap- 
tain Gideon White and Deborah Whitworth White, 
dau. of Miles Whitworth, M. D., of Boston, Mass. 

"Dr. White is the sixth generation from Peri- 
grine White, and has the coat of arms of the White 
family that was brought out in the May Flower. Wil- 
liam White was a son of the Bishop of Exeter. He 
died before the Pilgrims landed. Perigrine was born 
May 1st, in Cape Cod Harbor, and Mrs. White was 
married the next, or during that year, to Governor 
Winslow, so that the first birth, death and marriage 
were in the White family. 

"It was our privilege, while in Shelburne, N. S., 
in the summer of 1895, to visit the family of the Rev. 
Thomas Howland White, son-in-law of Benjamin 
Ogden. He was called "Shelburne's Grand Old Man." 
For over sixty years he had labored for the good of 
all sorts and conditions of men, sharing their joys and 
their sorrows, and performing the duties of a minister 
of the Gospel. He had 13 preaching stations, some- 
times in school houses or private dwellings, besides 
the historic church, over which he was rector for such 
a long period. He was the last to receive his stipend 
directly from England, which he used largely in doing 
acts of kindness and benevolence, having some private 
means. 

"His father, Mr. (Capt.) Gideon White, was 
secretary to the committee appointed to decide upon 
a place for loyalistts to settle. He strongly advised 
this place, afterwards called Shelburne, which he had 
before noticed when traveling, because of the fine 
harbor and safe distance from the ocean, and fine 



86 



FAMILY HISTORY. 



for fishing interests. The old house, built of white 
oak, in the United States, he brought to Shelburne 
and put up, and it is in sound condition to-day (1895). 

"An old Bible, in four volumes, in Rev. Dr. 
White's possession, has this inscription: 'These sac- 
red volumes were left to Cornelia A. Ogden, with 
fervent prayers for her spiritual improvement and 
welfare, by her much lamented aunt and God-mother, 
Margaret Hierlihy, who died at Antigonish, January 
30, 1829, aged 68 years.' " 

Cornelia Ann (Ogden) White d. 1875, Sept. 10. 
Her husband, the Rev. Thomas Rowland White, d. 
1898, July 29. Their children were : 

Cornelia White, who always resided with her 
father. 

Nathaniel Whitworth White, Q. C, who 
"represented his county in the local parlia- 
ment for several years, and is counted one 
of the best informed and soundest lawyers 
that plead at the bar of Nova Scotia." He 
married Fanny Smith De Wolfe, daughter 
of Rev. Dr. Charles De Wolfe and Matilda 
Caroline Black. Children: 



7th Generation. 

Thomas Rowland White m. 
Mary Susannah McCullum, 
dau. of John Archibald Mc- 
Cullum. 



Rev. Charles De Wolfe White 
m. Ethel Estelle Ross. He is ' 
rector at Kentville, N. S. 



8th Generation. 

Gideon Whitworth Rowland, 

b. 1895, June 29. 
Nathaniel Whitworth, b. 

1900, Dec. 28. 

John Deane Whitworth, b. 

1897, Aug. 4. 
George Leckart, b. 1899, Mar. 

28. 
Francis Amelia, b. 1900, Oct. 

27- 

Charles De Wolfe, b. 1902, 

Aug. 20. 
Mary Ellen, b. 1904. Jan. 22. 



IN ANTIGONISH. 87 

Augustus Albert Ogden; b. June 4, 1801 ; m. Amelia 
Hierlihy, dau. of Capt. William Hierlihy. They lived 
at Antigonish. Mr. Donald McDonald, attorney gen- 
eral, of Atigonish, and an intimate friend of Mr. A. A. 
Ogden, thus described him : "He was an accomplished 
scholar, both classical and mathematical. He spoke 
both French and German. He was a fine chess player. 
A splendid shot with a gun or pistol. In manner very 
quiet and gentle; a great favorite with his friends and 
neighbors." 

The children of Augustus Albert and Amelia 
(Hierlihy) Ogden were: 

Lucy Cornelia Ogden. 
Augusta Amelia Ogden. 
Benjamin Ogden. 

The daughters were living in Antigonish, where 
we visited them in 1895. They had remained in the 
old home, on the original grant to their grandfather, 
until 1884, when they were obliged to part with it at 
a sacrifice. "Ogden's Intervale" was a beautiful spot, 
and they left it with great regret to take a small 
house in the village; but there they were near the 
church which was an advantage they appreciated. 

They have an old water colored copy of the 
"Ogden Arms," like the photograph we are familiar 
with; — the motto: "Et si ostendo, non jacto." 

Their brother, Benjamin, married and went to 
' "the States" to live. 

Near the site of the old church, which was pulled 
down, the Ogdens have kept their burying plot — now 
overgrown with spruce and fir. There are four old 



88 FAMILY HISTORY. 



tombstones. They were so deeply cut that the follow- 
ing inscriptions could easily be traced : 

Sacred to the memory of 

Benjamin Ogden, who departed 

this life Sept. 4, 1835, aged 70 years. 

Sacred to the memory of 

Margaret Hierlihy, who left time 

for Eternity on Jan. 30, 1829, aged 60 years. 

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 

Capt. John Hierlihy died Nov. 18, 1822, 
aged 55 years. 
"Respected by his profession ; esteemed by his 
friends, and beloved by his family." 

Here rest the remains of Timothy W. Hierlihy, Esq., 

who died in April, A. D., 1830, 

aged 76 years. 

Also 

Lucy, consort of Timothy W. Hierlihy, 

who departed this life Aug., 1838, 

aged y2> years. 



IV. Albert Ogden, 2d son of Benjamin Ogden and Rachel 
Westervelt; born Jan. 20, 1769, was in his fifteenth year when the 
family went to the British Provinces. He, as well as his brother, 
Benjamin, was a volunteer in Capt. Bridgenerter's company, in the 
same regiment with their father. They both received crowTi 
grants. Albert's was 10 acres in Carleton, St. John County, Aug- 



ALBERT OGDEN. 89 

ust II, 1780, according to the record. He seems to have remained 
in the Provinces when his younger brother, Andrew, came to New 
York, to complete his education and enter business. We find him 
in New York in 1796, as clerk with his brother Andrew's friend, 
Mr. Heard, and Andrew writes about him to their brother, Ben- 
jamin, as follows: 



"Albert is very attentive and improves in the line he is in, and no 
doubt will do very well in New York. He has made no particular agree- 
ment with Mr. Heard as yet respecting his salary, but I dare say, from his 
being so well approved of, together with my being very intimate with 
Heard, he will get a compensation adequate to his expenses, which may be 
considered an acquisition for a person so totally unused to accounts or 
business of any kind as he was on his arrival. The salary, until he gets 
a further insight in business, is not an object, as I can, without any incon- 
venience, assist him, if necessary." 



We next find Albert in Morristown, N. J., keeping a store. 
The date of this cannot accurately be fixed. But from the county 
records we know that on October 15, 1799, he bought and took a 
deed for a valuable lot on the corner of Morristown Green and 
South Street, being 165 feet on the Green and 279.18 feet on South 
Street. This lot included all the land from the corner of South 
Street as far east as the present parsonage of the M. E. Church, 
and as far south on South Street, as the present property of the 
Church of the Redeemer. He purchased of Alexander Car- 



90 FAMILY HISTORY. 

michael. On December 26, 1799, we find him advertising in the 
"Genius of Liberty," newspaper published Janviary 2, 1799: 

"Albert Ogden has removed his store to house formerly Alexander 
Carmichael's, Esq., South St., cor. Morris Green. Dry Goods, Groceries, 
Drugs and Medicines." 

The experience gained in keeping a country store was a good 
preparation for future business success. Albert no doubt has this 
in mind and probably was guided in this plan by his brother, An- 
drew. It accords with the views of Andrew about gaining exper- 
ience in business expressed in his letter to Benjamin. Perhaps one 
reason he chose Morristown was that Andrew had married his 
wife from a Morristown family, (Mary Dixon), and knew that 
there was a good opening for a young business man. Albert con- 
tinued in business in Morristown until the autumn of 1801, when 
he removed to New York and began business there. , 

On June 4, 1801, he announces in the "Genius of Liberty" : 

"Albert Ogden, being under necessity of postponing his removal to 
New York, until Fall, &c., offers a general assortment of goods." 

On September 3, 1801, in "Genius of Liberty," Charles H. 
Morrell advertises : 

"That he has purchased Mr. Albert Ogden's stock of medicines, &c., 
and will keep a drug store." 



ALBERT OGDEN. 91 

On same date Albert Ogden advertises, public vendue at his 
house in Morristown, of store goods and household furniture, 
sleigh, horse, 2 top chairs. 

Under date of November 17, 1801, he advertises that he has 
removed his store to No. 205 Broadway, New York. Dry Goods. 
He was successful in New York and became a wealthy shipping 
merchant, having both foreign and Southern connections. His 
business address in 1802-3, as appears in New York Directory of 
that time, was 96 William Street. The firm name is given as Og- 
den Bros., merchants ; and Albert and Benjamin are given as 
partners. Andrew's place of business is given at the same number. 
A letter from their correspondents at Savannah, dated December 
3, 181 1, is addressed to Albert Ogden & Co., of New York. 

While at Morristown, Albert Ogden married Margaretta 
Wood, on March 29, 1800. She was born August 15, 1776. She 
was a niece and adopted daughter of Col. William De Hart and 
his wife, Elizabeth. Col. De Hart was a lawyer of prominence in 
Morristown, and in the State. Son of Dr. Matthias De Hart, of 
Elizabethtown ; was Lieut. Col. of Second Regiment, Continental 
Army. He was a delegate to the first and second Provincial Con- 
gress of New Jersey. The latter body adopted the first constitu- 
tion of New Jersey. The De Harts lived on South Street, in the 
house on corner of De Hart Street. Col. De Hart owned a tract 



92 FAMILY HISTORY. 

of land at that point, and De Hart Street was afterwards opened 
through it, and that street is named for him. 

In May and December, 1793, we find the name of Peggy Wood 
as attending the Morris Academy from the family of Col. William 
De Hart. — (Principal Russell's Record.) 

As Albert owned the Alexander Carmichael house on the 
Green, it is most likely that part of his married life was spent there 
before removing to New York. His wife, Margaretta, died Feb- 
ruary 12, 1804, and was buried at St. Paul's church-yard, in the 
Ogden vault. In the family Bible at the record of her death, Al- 
bert writes — "Why their loss deplore, that are not lost?" 

The same record gives their children : 



Elizabeth De Hart Ogden; b. Jan. 10, 1801. 

Benjamin Vincent Ogden; b. Aug. 4, 1802; d. Dec. 19. 

1803. 
Margaret Ann Ogden ; b. Jan. 25, 1804. 



Albert was left alone with his two little children, one of them 
not three weeks old. On April 19. of the next year, 1805, Albert 
Ogden married Jane Hyatt, who was born March 20, 1787. Their 
marriage is recorded at Trinity Church, New York. 

When Albert's sister, Rachel Wetmore, opened her school in 
Morristown, about 1808, he sent his two daughters, Elizabeth and 



ALBERT OGDEN. 93 

Margaret Ann, to her care, where they remained about ten years 
— making occasional visits to their father's house in New York. 

In 1812, Albert lost his wife, whose death he thus records 
in his Bible : "Jane H. Ogden, wife of Albert Ogden, departed 
this life on the night of the 20th March, 1812. On that day she 
had completed her 25th year." 

"The spider's most attenuated thread is cord, is cable, to 
man's tender tie on earthly bliss, it breaks at every breeze." 

The Ogden vault in St. Paul's church-yard is south of the 
church, adjoining the path. It is covered with a large flat brown 
stone, with the names, Benjamin, Albert and Andrew Ogden, 
carved on the stone. 

Albert attended St. Paul's Church, where he owned a pew. 
It is the same square pew as is now shown as "General Wash- 
ington's pew." 

It was probably about this time that his daughter Margaret 
remembered being so lonely in the house at New York. Her 
father, engrossed in business, did not realize that she was left with- 
out toys or playmates, and only allowed to speak to the servants 
as service required. The only occupation provided was a certain 
number of lines from "Pope's Essay on Man," which she was ex- 
pected to recite to her father on his return, and failing which he 
felt it his duty to use the bunch of birch rods. It sounds almost 
cruel to our modern ears, but in those days the old adage, "spare 



94 FAMILY HISTORY. 

the rod and spoil the child," was believed in, and implicit obedience 
was insisted upon. It did not lessen Margaret's affection for her 
father, which she showed by her life-long devotion to him, and 
she always spoke of him with reverence. 

She remembered good old Marm. Peg, her colored nurse, and 
Tom, who saved her life when she fell into the cistern. The stiff 
silk of the dress she wore spread out like a parachute and helped 
to keep her up until she was rescued.. 

At this time Albert Ogden lived in affluence and entertained 
his friends, among whom was Washington Irving. Bishop Hobart 
was another of the friends whom he greatly esteemed. Albert 
Ogden has been spoken of by his children and others who remem- 
bered him as "an old Pearl Street merchant," but we have no 
address there. 



"On May 13, 1814, in St. John's Church, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop 
Hobart, Albert Ogden to Frances S. Blackwell, daughter of James Black- 
well and Elizabeth Hallett Blackwell, of Blackwell's Island." 



Albert Ogden's daughter Margaret remeinbered some happy 
days spent at the Island. There was only the Blackwell homestead 
and the cabins of the negro servants upon the island. It was like 
a big garden. On Saturday afternoons they swam the horses 



ALBERT OGDEN. 95 

over to Astoria, where carriages were kept, to take the family to 
church next morning. 



"More than two centuries ago Blackwell's Island was owned and 
occupied by John Manning, an ex-sherifif of New York, who was in com- 
mand of the city and surrendered it to the Dutch in their attack, in 1673, 
for which feat he was promptly cashiered by the English when they had 
renewed their possession. Manning left the island to his daughter, the 
wife of Robert Blackwell." — Haswell's Reminiscences. 



They were married 1676, April 26. Of their descendants 
James Blackwell m. Elizabeth Hallett and had a large family. 
They entertained delightfully in their beautiful island home. 
Their daughter Eliza married Lemuel Wells, of Yonkers, and 
their home was the old Manor house, now the city hall of Yon- 
kers. Harriet married Dr. Hersey Baylies, of Astoria, who was 
a distinguished physician and a gentleman of culture. 

Albert Ogden and his wife lived on the island for about two 
years, when they moved to their pleasant and commodious house in 
Astoria, just across the water. His daughters were still under the 
excellent care of their Aunt Wetmore, in Morristown. When they 
returned to their father's house, which was probably about the 
time that Mrs. Wetmore went to Baltimore, their studies were con- 
tinued by masters in various branches. The Rev. Samuel Whelp- 
ley, their father's friend, taught them history. He was author 



96 FAMILY HISTORY. 

of "The Compend," "Lectures on Ancient History," etc. His son, 
a brilliant and talented young man, who was named after Albert 
Ogden and educated by him, afterwards married his daughter, 
Elizabeth De Hart Ogden. 

The home in Astoria was soon broken up by the death of Mrs. 
Ogden. 



"Frances S. Blackwell, wife of Albert Ogden, departed this life on 
Monday, 13th July, 1818." 

"Oh Death! insatiate Archer! and could not one sufifice? Thy shaft 
flew thrice and thrice my peace was slain." 



Thus his bereavement is recorded. Although married three 
times, he lived a widower for about fifty years. 

His business address in 1820, April 9th, from a letter to him 

from his neice, Rachel Canfield, was No. , Fulton Street, New 

York. His business reverses came about 1824, and were the re- 
sult of a series of calamities — losses by fire and loss of vessels, 
which, coming together, resulted in complete failure. He gave 
up everything he had and retired to the British Provinces with 
his mother and daughter Margaret. His daughter Elizabeth had 
been married to Albert Ogden Whelpley, August 10, 1823. They 
went to Carleton, where they had many friends, and Albert en- 
gaged in some business there. Later they moved to St. 
George, where his brother died, in 1829. Through the influence 



ALBERT OGDEN. 97 

of Sir Archibald Campbell, then Governor of New Brunswick, 
who showed them much courtesy, Margaret undertook a school. 
She received a license worded : "License is hereby given to Mar- 
garet Ogden, pursuant to the Royal Instructions, to keep a school 
in this Province for the instructioh of youth. This license to 
continue during pleasure." April 19, 1833. From old letters we 
learn that Albert Ogden had some interests in many places, and 
we find him in Morristown, and in Orange, N. J, and at Wolcott, 
Wayne Co., N. Y., about this time. At the latter place he had 
large peach orchards. Margaret continued her school in their 
house in Carleton, which was still standing in 1895, and was 
pointed out by one of her former pupils, an old gentleman named 
Mr. Samuel Brittain, who treasured many pleasant memories of 
Mr. and Miss Ogden. 

An interesting letter from Rachel Canfield, of Morristown, 
to her uncle, Albert Ogden, at St. George, dated March, 1834, has 
been preserved. She had only recently been bereaved of her lovely 
daughter Cornelia, of which affliction she wrote to her uncle, after 
which she gives family news of interest, which we quote in part : 



"My Dear Uncle : — With sincere pleasure we received your kind 
letter. We were happy to learn that yourself and cousin Margaret have 
enjoyed a comfortable share of health, and that she can be of assistance to 
you, and that your prospects are so good. Mrs. Ogden and family are well, 
as is mother's. Sophia (Mrs. Lovell) and Mary Ann (Mrs. Hayward) 



98 FAMILY HISTORY. 

are living with her. Sophia has a fine little girl two years old, and Mary 
Ann has 2 sons, one 4 years and one 6 months. Mr. Lovell is in N. O. 
Mr. H. is in N. York. I feel truly sorry that they are called to be separ- 
ated from their husbands so much. William's family are well. He has 2 
fine children, a son 12 years and a daughter 10 years. Mr. Colles' family 
are well, in N. Orleans, when they wrote last. Harriet has 3 children, 2 
daughters and a son, the youngest. She lost a dear little one about 4 years 
old two years since. Charlotte is well and lives with Harriet. My own 
dear boys are well, at least 3 of them. 

"The row of buildings jn which their store was situated on south- 
westerly side of the Green was consumed by fire. My dear boys lost about 
$1,500 beyond the insurance. It was a dreadful fire, such a one as Morris- 
town never witnessed. My sons are not discouraged. They are both 
young and healthy and have lost no friends by the disaster. Ogden 
is much beloved by all who know him, and Alfred is perfectly acquainted 
with business. My son George is well settled as a physician in Burling- 
ton County. * * * You mention that you attend a Sunday school. 
I am glad you are so well employed. May God grant that you may be 
successful in taking care of the lambs of Christ's flock ; may you be a 
preacher of righteousness to them, and may you be one that shall turn 
many to righteousness, of whom it is promised that they shall 'shine 
as the stars in the firmament.' 

"Your affectionate niece, 

"R. Canfield." 



About the year 1839, Albert Ogden decided to leave the Pro- 
vinces, and their many good friends, among whom were Mr. 
Josiah Wetmore's family, and he and his daughter Margaret went 
to Brooklyn, N. Y., where his daughter, Mrs. Whelpley, was 
living. 

In a Power of Attorney given to Mr. Justus Wetmore, of 



ALBERT OGDEN. 99 

Kingston, N. B., July 26, 1839, Albert gives his residence as 
Brooklyn, N. Y., late of Carleton. It was while they were living 
in Brooklyn that his daughter Margaret was married, on October 
9, 1845, in St. Mary's Church, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, to 
Joseph Schofield. 

The last years of Albert Ogden's life were spent in the house- 
hold of his niece, Mrs. J. S. Holmes, who was living in the old 
Ogden (Dixon) house on Morristown Green. His venerable form 
is still remembered by many. Every day he made his way to daily 
prayers at St. Peter's Church. A staunch adherent to the church 
of his parents because he believed in it, and was prepared to de- 
fend it with reasons. 

A letter to his daughter Margaret, in 1851, July i, thus de- 
scribes his pleasant home with his niece, Mrs. Holmes. This was 
in his 84th year: 



"I have been since here in as good health as usual and, as we are 
favoured with daily services in our church, I think it a favour and bless- 
ing that I have been able to attend generally. The church is half a mile 
distant and full enough for me to walk twice in a warm day; still I think 
it best to use my limbs while I have the power so to do, in the service of 
Him from whom I derive all my powers of thought and action. I am as 
comfortably situated myself as I could wish to be, except the absence of my 
family. A good quiet room where I can feel retired, if I choose so to be, 
from all company or intrusion. The family all amiable and very accom- 
modating to my wants and wishes, and very attentive to church duties and 
take an active part in the Sunday school, also do the young ladies take an 



loo FAMILY HISTORY. 

important part in the choir; Emily generally performs on the organ, and 
they both sing well. At my request they are always ready and willing to 
perform Psalms and Hymns, especially each evening, and this is a source 
of pleasure, for in them is evidently not only good music but words of 
inspiration that reach the heart." 



Also another 



"Morristown, Sept. 9, 1851. 
"All my friends here endeavor to make my stay agreeable to me. I 
believe I informed you in a former letter that in consequence of Mary's 
indisposition Mrs. Holmes has concluded to spend a month with her broth- 
er Nathaniel Holmes, at Tarrytown, and that in the meantime I was to stay 
with Mr. Lovell. Both places are very agreeable to me and very like home, 
so is Mr. Colles and family. No want of fine fruit or any of the good 
things of this world, for all which I cannot be too thankful." 



Albert Ogden was a man of the very highest character — very 
just and honorable in all his business relations, and very generous. 
A devout Christian. In his old age he was very indulgent to his 
grandchildren and he said he had not realized, at the time, that 
with his own children he had been more strict than was necessary 
— always requiring the most prompt and implicit obedience so that 
his children stood in awe of him — but his grandchildren loved him 
without fear. He used to give them exercises to do on rising and 
on retiring at night, such as he used to have when a cadet, to im- 
prove carriage and make the back straight and strong. One was 



ALBERT OGDEN. loi 

to extend the arms and slowly to describe a circle with them many 
times trying to meet the backs of the hands behind you. He also 
advocated the cold water bath, which was his daily practice, and 
he boasted of never having been ill until the infirmities of age 
came. He died in his 97th year. The 91st Psalm was chosen by 
one of his nieces to be sung at his funeral instead of one of the 
hymns. It was a fitting tribute to his long Christian life. He 
died on Thursday, February 2d, 1865, at 2 o'clock A. M. He is 
buried in St. Peter's church-yard, Morristown. 



FOURTH GENERATION. 

Descendants of Albert Ogden — b. Jan. 20, 1769; and Margaretta Wood Ogden — b. Aug. 15, 1776- 

married at Morristown, N. J., Mar. 29, 1800. 



5th Generation. 



6th Generation. 



f Albert Ogden Whelpley, b. 
1824, July 23; m. Abby Anna 
Warden Wardell, b. 1823, ] 
Sept. — ; d. 1891, Jan. 31. 



BETH De Hart Ogden, b. 

I, Jan. 10; d. 1864, Mar. i; 

1823, Aug. 10, Albert Og- 

Whelpley, b. 1801, Nov. 

d. 1843, Oct. I. He was a 

of Rev. Samuel Whelpley. 



7th Generation. 

Elizabeth Alice Whelpley, b. 
1852, Jan. 15; d. 1853, July 1. 



8th Generation. 



Albert Ogden Whelpley, Jr., f Clifton Whelpley, b. 18? 



b. 1853, July is; m. 1879, 



Leonard, b. 1853, June 30. 



Nov. 13. 



Nov. 26, Henrietta 'Barker J ^va Whelpley, b. 1882, Ap: 



25- 

Hazel Whelpley, 
Oct. 29. 



b. 1 88 



r Gladys Lillian Kuske, b. 185 
Lillian Whelpley, b. 1864, ^ Aug. 26. 

Jan. 15; m. Joseph Charles ! Clara Alma Kuske, b. 185 



Kuske, b. 1864, Jan. 27. 



I Sidney Diller Whelpley, b. 
i 1867, Oct. 25; m. Anna Jean- 
l ette Van Ness, b. 1866, Nov. 3. 



Samuel Melancthon Whelp- 
ley, b. 1826, Feb. 22; m. 
Emma Hoffman, b. 1838, Oct. 
29. 



r Luther Hoffman Whelpley, 
m. Amelia B. Bula. 
Frank Weber Whelpley. 
,' Augusto H. Whelpley, m. 
Clara Pignol. 
Emma Virginia Whelpley. 
Anna Elmendorf Whelpley. 
Josephine Ogden Whelpley. 



Virginia Ogden Whelpley, b. 
1830, Nov. 18; d. 1872, Aug. 
7. She belonged to All Saints' 
Sisterhood in Baltimore. 

Sidney Algernon Whelpley, b. f 

1832, May 1; d. 1871, May 20; j Louisa Whelpley. 
m. Louisa Elmendorf, d. 1873, 
(^ Jan. 27. [ 



Kiiiu Vincent Ogden, b. 
2, Aug. 4; d. 1803, Dec. 



Feb. 27. 
Lillian Dorothea Kuske, 
1900, April 19. 

f Raymond Leslie Whelpley, 
I 1896, Nov. 13. 

Milton Elwood Whelpley, 
i 1899, Aug. s. 

Irma Evelyn Whelpley, 
I 1902, Aug. 18. 



aret Ann Ogden, b. 1804, 
;. 25; d. 1882, April 30; m. 
5, Oct. 9, Joseph Schofield. 



J- Anna SchofielDj^ b. 1847, July 
.7. Henry | 
Fisher Vermilye, b. 1848, 



25; m. 1870, Sep. 17, Henry 



Sep. 6; d. 1872, Feb. 3; son 
of Rev. Isaac Dyckman Ver- 
milye. 



Anna Josephine Vermilye. 



ANDREW OGDEN. 103 

V. Andrew Ogden, youngest son of Lieut, Benjamin Og- 
den and Rachel Westervelt, and brother of Rachel, Benjamin and 
Albert, was born in New York, October 15, 1771, and died there, 
November 5, 1819. He was a boy of 11 years when the family 
left New York for the British Provinces, after the War of the 
Revolution, in 1783. There is no way of fixing accurately the 
date of his return to New York, but some of his grandchildren 
are sure that he went to Columbia College before engaging in 
business. 

In June, 1796, as appears by his letter of that date, he was a 
clerk for Galbreath & Elms, importers and jobbers, on a salary 
of £300, with the confidence of his employers and the expectation 
of being soon in business for himself. It was about this time that 
he married Mary Dixon, who was born October 7, 1778. She 
was daughter of John Dixon, born 1744, and died 181 1, and Mary 
Williams, his wife, born 1741, and died 1814. These dates are 
from the records of First Church, Morristown, N. J. 

In an old deed in Morris County Records, John Dixon is 
called "Merchant of New York." Another deed in N. Y. Reg., is 
as follows : 

"John Dixon, merchant, of Morristown, N. J., and wife, to Andrew 
Ogden. Deed, 1796. 57^ ft. front on Frankfort St., N. Y." 

A very just and satisfactory estimate of Andrew Ogden's 



104 FAMILY HISTORY. 

character can be formed from the interesting letter above referred 
to, which he wrote to his brother Benjamin, who was then hving 
in Antigonish, N, S., as follows : 



"New York, June, 1796. 

"Dr. Benjamin Ogden : — I write by Mr. John McKeough, who has 
been with us two or three weeks waiting for a passage to HaHfax. About 
a fortnight since I returned from Albany, where I went upon business 
for Galbreath and Elmes, after the completion of which I took stage for 
Schenectady and from thence rode to Charlton, about 9 miles further over 
the Mohawk River, where I had, for the first time, the pleasure of seeing 
several of our uncles and aunts, and cousins without number. Uncle Jona- 
than Ogden had lately purchased and moved in Charlton. The others, 
uncles Jessie Conde and Gilbert Miller, both of which you have heard our 
mother speak of, have been at that place near 20 years, and have acquired 
very handsome estates. To particularly describe them all, their different 
dispositions and occupations, circumstances, &c., &c., would, on account of 
their numbers, be too great an undertaking; therefore it must suffice for 
the present to say they are very agreeable in their families, their employ- 
ment, chiefly farming, and generally in very easy circumstances. 

"Our spring importation being sold, we have very little else to attend 
to but collecting, which part of the business I have little to do with ex- 
cept when sometimes the debt is considered in jeopardy when I find I am 
generally commissioned, but my ordinary part of the business is conducting 
the sales which, though requiring great exertions in the seasons of spring 
and fall in a house which sells such an immense amount of goods. Yet 
after those seasons I have long intervals of leisure which this summer I 
mean to improve by spending some time in the country, though not before 
Albert's businesss will admit of his accompanying me which, as it's now 
the retailers' best season for trade, is not the case. Albert is very attent- 
ive and improves in the line he is in, and no doubt will do very well in New 
York. He has made no particular agreement with Mr. Heard as yet re- 



ANDREW OGDEN. 105 

specting his salary, but I dare say, from his being so well approved of, to- 
gether with my being very intimate with Heard, he will get a compensation 
adequate to his expenses which may be considered an acquisition for a 
person so totally unused to accounts or business of any kind as he was 
on his arrival. The salary, until he gets a further insight in business, is 
no object as I can, without any inconvenience, assist him if necessary. 

"I expect shortly, as the gentlemen on your coast term it, to fish upon 
my own hook which, should I accomplish, we can be of greater service to 
each other. I have had several proposals of partnership in the wholesale 
and retail line, and think probably I shall accede to some of them by the 
fall. But as my situation, by an increase of salary to £300 per annum, has 
become more easy, I shall naturally expect more advantageous offers than 
before I would have accepted of, or will remain a little longer in my pres- 
ent employment when, probably, I may have an opportunity of shipping in 
the importing line which is a more lucrative business and, of course, pleas- 
anter. 

"I wonder, Benjamin, if you are still so much attached to the Garden 
of Eden that I could not persuade you New York would be a more eligible 
situation for a man of your abilities? You have been waiting with san- 
guine expectations 10 years to see the walls of Dorchester rise, but I imag- 
ine have witnessed the reverse. On many subjects I would not venture to 
advise a brother so much my superior in judgment, and in this will only 
observe that I think 10 years of the most active part of a man's life is too 
great a sacrifice to so little purpose, and advise you to leave a place where 
even the greatest exertions will not afford a decent living.. I wish you to 
think seriously of the matter and write me on the subject soon, indeed, I 
can't reconcile the idea of your continuing in such obscurity any longer 
than you can conveniently make arrangements to leave it. My amiable 
tiister-in-law, I fear will not feel herself much obliged by my advice, as it 
would tend to deprive her of the society of near friends in Dorchester, but 
when she reflects 'tis the interest and happiness of a brother inseparably 
connected with her I wish to promote, she will not accuse me with officious- 
ness. 



io6 FAMILY HISTORY. 

"Colonel Hierlihy's property on the Mississippi, in consequence of the 
treaty lately concluded between the United States and Spain, will, from 
information I have, likely be valuable. The United States boundary, as low 
on the river as the 31st degree north latitude, will, it is thought, include 
the colonel's land. 

"I had a hint from a son of Uncle Gilbert Miller's, who has been 
some time in that country and came passenger with I. McKeough from 
New Orleans, that the latter had an idea of getting the colonel's title, hav- 
ing, as he told Miller, been offered it some time before he left Dorchester, 
by the colonel as a compliment or at least for a trifling consideration. I 
would suppose McKeough to be possessed of more honor than to take an 
advantage of the colonel's ignorance on the subject, but thought proper to 
say this much which, should you think proper, you might mention to the 
colonel for his guidance, for you know with many persons friendship is a 
small consideration when a good bargain may be effected at the expense of 
it, which McKeough might do. 

"Wheat in New York has fell within a few weeks from 22 to 15, per 
bushel, owing to the plentiful supply of provisions in the European and 
West Indian markets. The consequence is that many of our speculators 
in that article have been severely bit, and some of them entirely stopped 
payment. 

"Mr. Elmes' ill state of health not admitting his doing any business 
since last November, Mr. Galbreath came out early this spring and as- 
sumed the direction. He proposes retiring in about 10 weeks, if Mr. Elmes 
does not get better of his complaints by that time. He of course will take 
in a new partner. 

"I send you by Mr. McKeough a parcel of papers to which I refer you 
for news. I also send * * * * which I wish to be favored with my 
sister-in-law's acceptance of. 

"About seven weeks since we had letters from Penobscot, when Wet- 
more and family were all well, and a short time since heard from St. John, 
where health also prevailed. The doctor has lately disposed of the farm 
at Rye and remitted the old gentleman part of the money, I think £150. 



ANDREW OGDEN. 107 

The remainder to be received shortly, when Albert will receive his de- 
mand. I believe the farm sold for £400 currency. 

"The old gentleman and mother are no doubt relieved from a great 
burden of Mr. Lamoreaux and family coming here from St. Johns. Robert 
will, I believe, do very well where he lives in Westchester. He has a 
respectable academy under his charge, applys himself closely to the study 
of Divinity, and no doubt will accomplish his purpose of getting orders 
before long. By request of the parishioners and the clergymen in West- 
chester, he has preached several sermons of his own couching which has 
given great satisfaction. 

"Make my respects acceptable to the colonel." 



This letter in Andrew Ogden's hand-writing, to his brother 
Benjamin, is not signed and probably was never sent; but it is 
nevertheless just as complete and authentic a record of the events 
which it contains as if Benjamin had received it. 

The old gentleman referred to is his step-father, Timothy Wet- 
more, and Robert was his half-brother. Jane, daughter of Tim- 
othy Wetmore, married Mr. Lamoreaux. (See Wetmore Genea- 
logy, by J. C. Wetmore.) Andrew, according, to his hopes and 
expectations, was soon engaged in a prosperous business, and ap- 
pears to be in partnership with his friend, Mr. Heard, from this 
deed found in N. Y. Reg. : 

"Jonathan Hobson to Andrew Ogden and James Heard, merchants, 
of New York. Deed dated April 18, 1800, $4,900. Dwelling house and lot. 
Maiden Lane, south side." 



io8 FAMILY HISTORY. 

In 1 80 1, Andrew appears in the New York City Directory as 
a merchant, doing business at 96 William Street, and in 1802-3, 
"Ogden Bros.," have the same address. 

Andrew's first child was born in Morristown, in April, 1797, 
probably at the Dixon homestead, which was on the corner of 
Green and Bridge street, next door to the old Baptist Church. 
Old records show that John Dixon was living there in 1803, 1804 
and 1806. The same records speak of this house, in 1812, as 
the Widow Dixon's. (John Dixon died 181 1), and in 1817, as 
William Dixon's. (Mrs. John Dixon died in 1814). William 
Dixon, physician, born, 1774; died 1827; was son of John Dixon, 
and brother of Mary, wife of Andrew Ogden. 

According to family tradition, William practised medicine at 
this time, and kept a drug store there, as was the custom of the 
country doctor of those days. The lean-to addition of the house 
on the street was his office and that had to be removed to widen 
the street. This old house was standing when Bridge Street was 
laid out and it was necessary to lay the street so as to cut off a 
considerable portion of the house ; consequently the road and side- 
walk were very narrow ; at one time it was "only a cow path." 
There was a house called "the yellow house," which was opposite 
John Dixon's, and there Rachel Wetmore lived in 1804. It was 
owned by her brother, Andrew Ogden. On the map of 18 17, it is 
marked as the Ogden house. Some of Andrew Ogden's descend- 



ANDREW OGDEN. 109 

ants, now living, remember with afifection the old Dixon house on 
the Green, looking out on the old "First Church," with its friend- 
ly clock ever ready to furnish the time of day, and the cosy, hos- 
pitable interior of the old home, with its beautiful mahogany fur- 
niture, kept so well polished, and the garden, where fruit, flowers 
and vegetables grew for comfort and pleasure. Some of the rare 
old china, beautiful cut glass, and silver, of best old designs, is still 
cherished in the family. The fine old linen, the spotless dimity 
hangings, with ball trimmings, and the old time chintz are not 
forgotten, though time will soon claim them all forever. If the 
library is still in existence it would be a mine to the lover of old 
books. 

There are many deeds recorded in N. Y. Reg., of Andrew 
Ogden's business transactions, of which the following may locate 
his residence on Broadway : 



"Andrew Ogden, merchant, and Mary, his wife, to Harry Peters, 
merchant, mortgage, April 13, 1806. (Liber. 15; p.499). 

"Dwelling house, 8th ward, on easterly side of Broadway, bounded 
in front by Broadway; N. E. by Elizabeth Duryee, late of James Robert- 
son ; S. E., in rear, by David Deas ; S. W., by Anthony L. Bleecker ; 75 
ft. front; 316 deep." 



The name Stuyvesant, in another deed, calls to mind a cur- 
ious old talisman of gold and carved wood, to wear on a chain. 



no FAMILY HISTORY. 

It was given by John Stuyvesant, brother of Peter, to Jane Ogden, 
Andrew's daughter: 

"Andrew Ogden and wife to Ex'rs. of Peter Stuyvesant, land in 
Washington street, not yet opened. Mortgage, March i8, 1808. Rec'd. L. 
21 ; p. 522. Cancelled ." 

Mrs. Lovell's narrative tells of "Andrew and Albert being 
wealthy importing merchants in New York, and that Andrew's 
country place was on Broadway, between Astor Place and 4th 
Street, the house of which was standing about the year 1849, or 
later. His mother, Rachel Ogden Wetmore, had a small house 
near that of her son Andrew, and one faithful servant, who lived 
with Her for many years." This "country place" must have been 
the summer home which his grand-daughter, Mrs. George T. Cur- 
tis, says, "was called the farm," his other residence being on the 
corner of Broadway and Leonard Street. He and his wife used to 
take long carriage tours in the country to Water Gap, Mauch 
Chimk, and other places, in the pleasant summer weather, some- 
times spending two or more weeks traveling in that enjoyable 
way." 

He made a will November 12, 1810 ; Proved November 29, 
1819. N. Y. Surrogate's office. It is principally interesting as an 
index of his property at that time. His will names aged mother, 
widowed sister and her helpless family. Gives brother Benjamin 



ANDREW OGDEN. m 

and brother Albert $5,000 each. His mother to have $200 annual- 
ly. Will speaks of all his children and either of his two sons, but 
does not give names. Abraham E. Smedes and John Haggerty, 
guardians and executors, with Albert Ogden. Smedes and Hag- 
gerty were to have handsome English gold watches. 

Andrew became a man of wealth and station and was inter- 
ested in the affairs of his time. In Memorial Hist, of N. Y., by J. 
G. Wilson, we note that in 1812, June 9th, "Mr. Abraham Smith, 
of New York, presented a petition of the most important mer- 
chants of New York to avert war with England, signed, Andrew 
Ogden & Co., John Jacob Astor, and many others. 

The first break in his happy and prosperous career came in 
1814, when his two little daughters died. Then came the great 
grief, in 1817, of losing their first born son, William, a young 
man of great promise, who died in his 20th year. Business re- 
verses followed which swept away his property, and with it his 
health and reason. He died at his residence on Broadway, No- 
vember 5, 1819, aged 47 years. His widow, about two years later, 
removed to Morristown, N. J., with her children, where she lived 
in the Dixon house, corner the Green and Bridge Street, until her 
death, in 1850. A letter from Rachel Canfield to her uncle, Albert 
Ogden, written March 21, 1834, gives this family news: "Mrs. 
Ogden, you doubtless know, has married her daughter, Mary Car- 
oline, to Mr. Nystrom, and Jane, to Mr. Holmes, an Episcopal 



112 FAMILY HISTORY. 

clergyman, now about to leave this place and to be settled in a 
small congregation at Orange, four miles from Newark. Mrs. 
Ogden has only Cornelia with her now." 

Mrs. Ogden was buried in St. Peter's church-yard, where 
her marble tombstone is to be seen with this inscription : 

Mary Dixon, wife of 

Andrew Ogden, 

Born Oct. 7, 1778; 

Died March 16, 1850. 

"Blessed are the dead, who died in the Lord." 

The record from Andrew Ogden's family Bible, and other 
family records, is as follows: 

"Andrew Ogden; b. at New York, Oct. 15, 1771 ; d. 1819, Nov. 5." 
"Mary Ogden (Dixon) ; b. Oct. 7, 1778; d. 1850, March 16." 



There children were 



Fifth Generation. 



William; b. at Morristown, N. J., April 17, 1797; d. 1817, 

Dec. 7. 
Jane Seaman ; b. at N. Y., Feb. 4, 1800. 
Mary Caroline; b. at N. Y., Nov. 13, 1801. 
Horace ; b. at N. Y., April 26, 1804 ; d. 1826, Dec. 6. 
Augusta Louisa ; b. at N. Y., Oct. 17, 1807 ; d. 1814, July 8. 
Cornelia Hierlihy; b. at N. Y., Mar. 6, 1809; d. 1833, 

Feb. 20. 



REV. BENJAMIN HOLMES 113 

Rachel Ann Eliza; b. at N. Y., Jan. 12, 1812; d. 1814, 
Nov. 9. 

Jane Seaman, eldest daughter of Andrew Ogden, was 
married at St. Peter's Church, Morristown, N. J., October 
29, 1829, to the Rev. Benjamin Holmes, by the Rev. Wil- 
liam R. Whittingham, afterwards Bishop of Maryland. 
These two clergymen were devoted friends and fellow- 
workers. Benjamin Holmes, born November 10, 1797, was 
son of Benjamin Holmes and Phebe Jarvis, of Tarrytown, 
N. Y. He founded St. Peter's Church, where there is a 
tablet placed to his memory. He also founded St. Mark's 
Church, in Orange, N. J., where he died, in 1836. He was 
buried beneath the chancel and the inscription on the tablet 
there to his memory, written by Bishop Doane, of New 
Jersey, reads : 

"In memory of the Reverend Benjamin Holmes, rec- 
tor of this church, who was born in New York, December 
16, 1797, and died at the parsonage, August 4, 1836. 

"From his youth, meekness, gentleness, simplicity and 
godly sincerity, marked him the child of God. Through 
his whole ministry, zeal in his Master's cause, tempered by 
prudence, sustained by integrity, and crowned with charity, 
made him a pattern for his brethren, and a pillar of the 
church. Of his activity as a missionary, his faithfulness 
as a preacher, his devotion as a pastor, this church and 
that of St. Peter's, at Morristown, both which he founded, 
are the enduring memorials. Their love for the man, 
their admiration of the Christian, their gratitude to the 
honest watchman for their souls, the congregation of St. 
Mark's Church thus mournfully record." 

An extract from a letter written by Mr. Jacob M. 
King, an old Morristonian, dated April 17, 1831, from 
which we are permitted to quote, thus speaks of Rev. Mr. 



114 FAMILY HISTORY. 

Holmes : "We also have lost our little clergj'man, Mr. 
Holmes, having moved to Orange. He is a man for whom 
the congregation entertained the most unfeigned respect, 
and so far from saying or doing anything to make his 
parting unpleasant, they all assembled on the eve of his 
departure and loaded him with presents. A most simple 
and unaffected christian, not a spark of cant or assumed 
gravity about him, and I believe in his heart entertained 
the most profound contempt and abhorrence for the system 
of proselyting, getting up excitements, and so forth." 

The children of Rev. Benjamin Holmes and Jane 
Seaman Ogden were : 

Mary Eleanor, who d. 1857, April i8th, in the 

23d year of her age. 
Benjamin ; b. 1836, Sept. 21 ; d. 1840, Dec. 31. 

Mrs. Holmes lived to the good old age of 98, greatly 
beloved and honored by all who knew her. She is buried 
in St. Peter's church-yard, where her grave is strewn with 
flowers each Easter and All Saint's Days, by one of her 
loving nieces, to whom she was like a mother. 

Andrew Ogden's second daughter, Mary Caroline; b. 
1801, Nov. 13, was married at Morristown, N. J., 1823, May 
13, to John Nystrom, a native of Norkoping, Sweden. (He 
was introduced to Andrew Ogden's family by the Swedish 
Consul. He was an importer of Swedish iron. His broth- 
er Frederick exporting the iron from Sweden.) 

She was very beautiful and accomplished and took an 
active part in the work of St. Peter's Church, helping 
with the music and playing the organ, and interested in all 
benevolent work. They lived on the west side of the Green 
in a house built for Mr. Nystrom with all the modern 
improvements of those days. A few years later Mr. 
Nystrom, who was a sportsman, bought the farm now 



DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW OGDEN. 115 

owned by the Howlands, where they could have plenty of 
room for country sports and enjoy more outdoor life. Mrs. 
Nystrom died after a short illness, of pneumonia, on Feb. 
ruary 22, 1838. 

The children of John Nystrom and Mary Caroline 

Ogden were: 

Sixth Generation. 

1. Mary Caroline; b. 1824, May 4. 

2. Louise Adele; b. 1825, Nov. 14. 

3. Charles Westfeldt; b. 1827, Nov. 14; d. unmar- 

ried. 

4. Emilie Christina. 

5. John Oscar; d. 1841, Jan. 20, aged 61^ years. 

I. Mary Caroline Nystrom was married at St. 
Peter's Church, Morristown, N. J., 1848, 
Oct. II, to Edward Nicoll Dickerson, of 
Paterson, N. J. He was son of Philemon 
Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey, in 
1836. He was a distinguished lawyer, a 
scientific man and an inventor. He died 
December 12, 1829, in his 6sth year. Their 
children : 
Seventh Generation. Eighth Generation. 

Mary Caroline Dickerson, d. y. 



Edward Nicoll Dickerson; m. 
Charlotte, dau. of John E. Og- 
den, a descendant of John Ogden, 
of Elizabcthtown. He grad. 
Trinity Coll. valedictorian of 
class 1874. 

Louise Adele Dickerson; m. 
Charles W. Gould, of New York. 



Lillian Dickerson. 
Priscilla Ogden Dickerson. 



"6 FAMILY HISTORY. 



2. Louise Adele Nystrom married, Nov. 6, 185 1, 
George Ticknor Curtis, of Boston, Mass., 
son of Benjamin Curtis and Lois Robbins. 
He was a noted lawyer and author of "The 
History of the Constitution of the United 
States," and many valuable works. He was 
born 1812, and died Mar. 28. 1894, and was 
buried at Kensico Cemetery, N. Y., where 
a monument is placed to his memory. The 
children of George Ticknor Curtis and 
Louis Adele Nystrom Curtis : 

Seventh Generation. 

Louise Constance. 
Herbert Nystrom. 
Emilie Christina. 
Caroline Alice. 

Charles Gordon ; grad. Columbia, 
1881 ; inventor of the Curtis 
steam turbine, extensively used 
here and abroad (1905). 
Adele Hillard. 



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